My AI Assistant: Building a Private, E2EE Mobile Command Center with Signal, Obsidian, and Antigravity CLI (agy)

By | August 16, 2026
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In modern self-hosting and homelab architecture, remote management often forces a trade-off between convenience and security. Exposing web interfaces to the public internet or relying on proprietary cloud bots introduces security vectors and metadata leakage. By combining Signal (the gold standard of end-to-end encrypted messaging), Antigravity CLI (agy) (an autonomous local AI agentic assistant), and… Read More: My AI Assistant: Building a Private, E2EE Mobile Command Center… »

Resurrecting Legacy Wemo Devices (Switches & Motion Sensors) with Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | July 3, 2026
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In the smart home ecosystem, vendor deprecation is a common challenge. When hardware manufacturers terminate cloud support or deprecate mobile setup paths, legacy devices (like Gen 1 and Gen 2 Belkin Wemo smart plugs and motion detectors) often end up as e-waste. However, because these devices run a completely local UPnP/SSDP control API, they can… Read More: Resurrecting Legacy Wemo Devices (Switches & Motion Sensors) with Home… »

Integrating E.ON Romania (Gas & Electricity) with Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | July 2, 2026
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In smart home configurations, managing utility consumption is crucial for budget control and scheduling resource usage. This post explains how to integrate your E.ON Romania account (Myline portal) with Home Assistant and your developer AI assistant, Antigravity (agy). 1. Prerequisites and Installation To retrieve active billing and index data, we use the community custom integration… Read More: Integrating E.ON Romania (Gas & Electricity) with Home Assistant and… »

Powering the Dashboard: Connecting Hidroelectrica to Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | July 1, 2026
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Monitoring electricity bills and submitting meter readings is a breeze when integrated into your local smart home system. This post explains how to connect your Hidroelectrica (iHidro portal) account with Home Assistant and your AI developer assistant, Antigravity (agy). 1. Prerequisites and Installation To interface with the iHidro portal API, we use the community custom… Read More: Powering the Dashboard: Connecting Hidroelectrica to Home Assistant and Antigravity… »

Local Power Resilience: Connecting a Volt Polska USB UPS to Fedora, NUT, and Home Assistant

By | June 30, 2026
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Having a backup power supply is essential for data integrity during power grid fluctuations. This post outlines the step-by-step process to connect a Volt Polska USB UPS directly to a Fedora Linux laptop, monitor it with Network UPS Tools (NUT), and expose its real-time metrics to Home Assistant and your AI assistant, Antigravity (agy). 1.… Read More: Local Power Resilience: Connecting a Volt Polska USB UPS to… »

Exposing the Wallet to AI agents: Connecting the Wise (TransferWise) API to Home Assistant and Antigravity (agy)

By | June 30, 2026
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In a developer-first smart environment, we bridge physical sensors, AC systems, and mesh radios. But we can go further: connecting financial APIs directly to our terminal workspace. By integrating the Wise (formerly TransferWise) API with Antigravity (agy) and Home Assistant, we can check multi-currency account balances and execute secure payments directly from our terminal or… Read More: Exposing the Wallet to AI agents: Connecting the Wise (TransferWise)… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (14) Unifying the Workspace, Connecting HomeAssistant, Networks, Vehicles, and LoRa to Antigravity (agy)

By | June 26, 2026
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In a modern developer’s smart home, the workspace extends far beyond local source code. It spans the physical environment (climate, blinds, air quality), network routing infrastructure (routers, switches, APs), smart appliances (refrigerators, HVAC, printers, smart kitchen devices), personal vehicles, self-hosted web analytics, and off-grid radio meshes. By linking these domains together and exposing them to… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (14) Unifying the Workspace,… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (13): Tracking Web Analytics Locally: Integrating WordPress Jetpack Stats & Uptime with Home Assistant

By | June 24, 2026
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For self-hosted bloggers and developers, keeping an eye on website uptime and audience engagement is crucial. However, checking web dashboards constantly is distracting, and polling local databases for traffic metrics can slow down your site’s performance. If you use WordPress connected to Jetpack (by Automattic), you can leverage the WordPress.com cloud REST API to pull… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (13): Tracking Web Analytics… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (12): Off-Grid Smart Home Control, Bridging Meshtastic (LoRa) and Home Assistant Assist

By | June 23, 2026
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Imagine controlling your entire smart home—closing blinds, turning off lights, checking room temperatures, or arming security systems—from miles away, without cellular coverage, internet access, or grid dependencies. By combining Meshtastic (an open-source, decentralized LoRa mesh network) with Home Assistant (the ultimate local home automation hub), you can build a secure, long-range, off-grid control link that… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (12): Off-Grid Smart Home… »