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Why I Swapped InfluxDB for TimescaleDB – The LLM Tax

For years, InfluxDB has been the data backbone of my Home Assistant setup. With the native Home Assistant integration and Grafana, I had my dashboards dialed in. While FluxQL was a bit of a learning curve, I was able to…

April 24, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation

Listening to the Birds with AI – My Local HaikuBox

A few year ago, I saw a very cool product. Haikubox, is a small device that listens to birds at home, identifies them and gives you a nice web interface to see what's going on. Over time, I realized one…

April 23, 2026AI Projects, Python

AI-Powered Security Camera Reviews with Frigate, n8n, and Ollama

Frigate is great at detecting objects. It will tell you a person showed up at the front porch, or that a car pulled into the driveway. What it won't tell you is whether that person is your neighbor waving hello…

April 17, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Security

From Coral to Hailo: Why I Finally Swapped My Frigate AI Hardware

I have been running Frigate for quite a while now. The Google Coral TPU has long been the "gold standard" for edge processing object detection. It’s efficient, cheap, and handles MobileNet models like a champ. But as my camera count…

February 26, 2026AI Projects, Home Automation, Security

Goodbye Ring, Hello Privacy

With it being ever more likely that someone could access Ring cameras or lock me out of access to Ring footage, I decided it was time to leave Ring for the doorbell cameras. I had two, one on the house,…

January 13, 2026AI Projects, Security

From Smart Bulbs to Skynet: The 2026 State of my Home Automation

When I left Elastic, one of my goals was to dive deep into home automation and finally "level up" my setup. Looking back at where I started when we first moved to Graham, it’s almost comical. Back then, "Home Automation"…

January 1, 2026AI Projects, Computers, Home Automation, Security

Co-Writing Music with AI

I set out last week with a simple but slightly provocative question: Can I write a song with AI the same way I would if I hired a professional producer and songwriter? I didn’t want the AI to just do…

November 2, 2025AI Projects, Music

Nova’s Fast dev API

Today's been about getting this thing set up properly. I'm not a developer by trade, but I've always been a coder. That being said, I consider myself a prototype developer, so my projects tend to be loosely managed. I wanted…

July 3, 2025AI Projects, Home Automation, Python

Nova Assistant: It was only a matter of time

My house is definitely smart to the extreme. I have a lot of automation that runs all aspects of the house, security with AI, and dedicated servers for automation and AI. One example of how I have already wired some…

June 28, 2025AI Projects, Home Automation

Python Nerdery: Natural Language to SQL Bird Call Queries

Sitting at my desk with a fresh coffee, I had an idea: build a web app that lets you ask questions about the Haikubox bird data in plain English and get plain answers back. Built the whole thing using Ollama…

December 22, 2024AI Projects, Python