I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend

    •  beerd   ( @beerd@beehaw.org ) OP
      4•1 year ago

      I attempted to use different home assistant softwares, but i always ended up deciding that i will wait till offline voice recognition is a bit more usable (not being a native englis speaker its a rougher experience). I will pobably try it again soon though.

      •  GreyBeard   ( @greybeard@lemmy.one ) 
        7•1 year ago

        Home Assistant, despite the name, isn’t an Assistant like Alexa or Google Home, it is actually a home automation integrator. It connects to practically everything, and then workflows can be triggered off the states of your IOT stuff. In my house, I use it to, among other things, turn down/off the light when grid power goes down and I’m running on battery power, as well as send me a notification that I’ve lost grid power.