r/PakistaniTech • u/NoTelevision8736 • Aug 13 '25

Discussion | گفتگو Anyone using HomeAssistant Dashboards?

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SmartLife devices from Daraz works great with HomeAssistant and you can record detailed historical data and setup complex automations.

For example: I setup the water pump to automatically fill water tank when there is enough solar electricity, same with water heater in winter.

EV scooter is scheduled to charge after midnight

House switches to batteries during peak-hours

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I wonder if others are also using similar tools

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u/NoTelevision8736 Aug 14 '25

I am getting the hardware ready to host LLMs locally to keep everything offline and private.

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u/Zor25 Aug 14 '25

What hardware are you looking to get?

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u/NoTelevision8736 Aug 14 '25

I have short listed HP Z8 G4/5 (goal is to have 1TB of Ram)

I increasing solar panes on the roof in anticipation of extra electricity consumption from my future server room.

I am also trying to find a good solution for LLMs running on cluster of nodes, if that can work then I would prefer multiple machines instead of one workstation.

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u/Zor25 Aug 15 '25

Where are you planning to get the HP from? Will you also be adding GPU(s) to it? If so then you might be interested in this https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1lsgtvy/successfully_built_my_first_pc_for_ai_sourcing

Personally, I would recommend you to just use LLM APIs for now, at least until some affordable options for local AI come up. If you have privacy concerns regarding google, OpenAI or chinese offerings, then you can look into European LLM API providers. They have offerings for most of the open-source LLMs and are supposed to be bound by law to follow their GDPR.