You Can Use Your Old Laptop To Make A Smart Home Hub
You don’t need a Raspberry Pi or mini PC to start experimenting with Home Assistant.
That crappy old laptop collecting dust in your closet might have another use after all. With some open-source software and a little patience, you can give it a second life as a smart home control system. It may not be the perfect hardware for the job, but it lets you get started with what you already have.
A smart home composed of devices from several different companies can make for a messy setup. Although standards like Matter and Thread are designed to smooth that out, fragmentation still hasn't been solved. So, some people prefer to build their own solution. The software that holds it together is Home Assistant, an open-source platform that acts as a local control center for different brands' smart home devices.
Home Assistant can run on a wide range of...
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