Based on our record, Home-Assistant.io seems to be a lot more popular than Portal TV. While we know about 66 links to Home-Assistant.io, we've tracked only 4 mentions of Portal TV. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
If you don't hate Facebook the Portal TV is actually a great piece of hardware. If you have privacy concerns you can just unplug it when not in use. Source: almost 3 years ago
If you don't mind Facebook invading your house, I find their Portal TV peripheral to be good since the screen size is much larger. https://portal.facebook.com/products/portal-tv/ There's another portal model that's as big as a small mirror. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Maybe something like the Facebook Portal TV? Source: about 3 years ago
You're absolutely sure you mean Portal TV? Not one of the ones with it's own screen, but the webcam-looking thing that clips to the top of the TV? Https://portal.facebook.com/products/portal-tv/. Source: about 3 years ago
HA is Home Assistant. You should check it out. Mushroom is an add on to HA’s interface that adds sone different style “cards” than what it comes with. Source: 10 months ago
Yes, there's Home Assistant that can work completely off-line. You can find multitude tutorials on youtube on how to set it up, even using cheap solutions like Raspberry PI. Source: 11 months ago
I'm going to suggest- you ever heard of Home Assistant? It's a really useful home automation tool you could integrate with weather and clock on a dashboard. As well, you could use it to control smart devices. Source: 12 months ago
As for the "what is playing" detection on my google minis. This is done with "https://home-assistant.io/". Source: about 1 year ago
The method that seems to work most reliability with all devices and all ecosystems is a Zigbee2MQTT software hub running on a computer alongside Home Assistant. The Z2M project has a list of compatible USB dongles which are typically around $20-30 (The Sonoff being a good one) but you still need a server (i.e. a small computer like a thin client or raspberry pi) and install and configure the software, so this... Source: about 1 year ago
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ioBroker - flexible and modular application for the IoT and Smarthome
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