Home Assistant on KVM

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After a machine dedicated to Home Assistant starts to break down, I look for a new home for my Home Assistant system. As I have a Ubuntu server running various service, I decide to host Home Assistant in a virtual machine running on top of the Ubuntu server. After a few hours of error and […]

File and Media Sharing

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Home Media Center There are multiple devices (e.g., laptop, tablet, smart TV, projects) in a home network, and we want to play local media (music, videos, photos, etc) from any of these devices. In this case, we may want to build a media center that enables media sharing and streaming across multiple devices. A completely […]

Intent Handling

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After a voice command is recognized and its intent is identified, for example, by Rhasspy, the intent needs to be handled, for example, by Home Assistant. Below we illustrate how to do this by using Rhasspy and Home Assistant. Event Driven When we configure Rhasspy to use Home Assistant for intent handling, there two options: […]