Calibre Web VS Home Assistant

Calibre-web can, I use it with an app on an iPad. It’s not immediately obvious how to access it, but here’s a GitHub issue with good info: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/2103

You can simply use this website to send yourself books using the web browser on the kobo

https://send.djazz.se/

Or you can host your own "Kobo store" using calibre web and use that to sync your books

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...

There are already some very good ebooks solutions out there so there's really no need. Calibre for the backend and database management, Calibre-Web for the front end, and Openbooks for content.

I have a carefully-curated calibre-web library that is 100% epubs. I have a kindle to which I usually send books from calibre-web with the 'send to e-reader' button, and it works great.

Worthy of note the Calibre-Web[0] project, which builds atop Calibre library to provide powerful web interface. The project and its maintainer deserve some love and support.

[0] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

Calibre Web: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

Calibre-web

A pihole, of course. A backup script runner. An eink dashboard.. A book server.

Home Assistant

This time, I attended Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools. I thought it would be about OpenTelemetry for your home. After the speaker mentioned Home Assistant, however, I didn't pay much attention to the rest.

The rootless .container files go into ~/.config/containers/systemd. I'm using one to run Home Assistant.

ha-aws-cost is a project from Diego Marques for folks who use Home Assistant (a very popular open source home automation system), and provides custom component interacts with AWS to get the month to date cost and forecast cost and make it available on Home Assistant. It adds two new entities 1/Month to date cost: The current cost of your AWS account, and 2/Forecasted month costs: The forecasted cost based in your current consumption. Check out Diego's post on LinkedIn that provides some more background to this project.

Nice!

For a home-rolled solution, I use a GE CYNC ST19 Edison Style bulb in a socket right outside my office door. I have it configured through Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/), and then use Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) on my macbook to make an API call to Home Assistant when the camera state changes.

If my camera turns on/off, so does the light bulb. Works really well for letting my family know I'm busy in meetings.

Given these changes, I thought about reintroducing Homebridge. But upon researching, I discovered Home Assistant.

🏡 Project: Home Assistant 💡 Why Contribute: Home Assistant is an open-source platform designed to manage smart homes. With its vast community and growing list of supported devices, you can contribute by adding new integrations, fixing bugs, or improving documentation.

I think you're looking for Home Assistant:

https://www.home-assistant.io/

Looks very similar, yet not as polished as https://www.home-assistant.io/.

Looking at their example "show me the camera in the living room" I'm reminded of this blog post:

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/07/ai-agents-for-...

> As we have researched AI, we concluded that there are currently no AI-powered solutions yet that are worth it. Would you want a summary of your home at the top of your dashboard if it could be wrong, cost you money, or even harm the planet?