Home Assistant Without the Web UI
The login page died, so I stopped using it. Operating Home Assistant over its APIs: three auth channels, where to write, and what silently eats your change.
Tag: homelab
5 posts
The Limits of the Walls
Six sessions handing a live home network to an AI agent. Part 3: the memory that made it work, the division of labour, and what I'd never let it touch.
There Is No API
The router I was reconfiguring has no public API. Part 2: driving the private endpoints the web UI calls — and the wall the agent could not script past.
Don't Saw Off the Branch
I let an AI agent rebuild my live home network over Starlink — no console, no documented API. Part 1: building three backout paths before a single write.
Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR
The full story of getting Nest cameras streaming into Frigate with Hailo-8L AI detection — including the bugs Google won't tell you about.