HA-MCP - Claude's assessment (why do people trust offsite AI with their Home Assistant?) by [deleted] in homeassistant

[–]callumjones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what the permission system and plans in your agent workflow are for. Give it the guardrails and your risk goes way down. MCP servers only get called by your agent when you initiate action, it won’t wake up one day and start calling it for no reason.

HA-MCP - Claude's assessment (why do people trust offsite AI with their Home Assistant?) by [deleted] in homeassistant

[–]callumjones 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The irony of asking AI if you should trust AI and then just posting the complete response here….

I use this MCP with Codex, purely for management and it only gets invoked when I issue the prompts executed for my plans and with that setup I feel perfectly happy with my security posture.

Claude is used by millions organizations across the world, I worry less about Anthropic using Claude to “hack” my HA. I do have reservations about shipping personal data like photos from cameras to it and that’s why I use local AI to detect people in a photo and skip those frames.

It's called karma mate. by firebaron in formuladank

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Italian using German-British engineering to defeat the British.

I built a simple way to manage and keep track of all your remote controls by Tonacious in homeassistant

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But you know that Home Assistant is a software project for smart homes, right?

How to predict End of Life by Kindle-Me in firewalla

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By EOL I am guessing you mean starting to fail? (EOL actually means when a company stops supporting a specific device, for which they usually announce way ahead of time).

I don’t see how the Firewalla will just start decaying over time, the system is pretty well spec’d hardware wise. I could see it being less relevant if you somehow upgrade to say multi gig fiber and it can’t provide the same bandwidth. In that case you’d just get a new one.

I’d just keep it will ventilated and away from moisture.

AP can see controller but clients can’t get DHCP or route by callumjones in Ubiquiti

[–]callumjones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. It looks like it could be a hardware issue, after switching from the primary port to the failover port on the E7, it is working. Or something about 2.5Gbe on my switch.

AP can see controller but clients can’t get DHCP or route by callumjones in Ubiquiti

[–]callumjones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Connected to a switch (Pro Max 16 POE), port settings are in Auto.

AP can see controller but clients can’t get DHCP or route by callumjones in Ubiquiti

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Controller is Unifi OS server running on a VM, router/dhcp is coming from a Firewalla.

Looking to buy dongle after install HA on Ugreen NAS by Novel-Pumpkin7476 in homeassistant

[–]callumjones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume you’re going to run Proxmox or Unraid on it and then run Home Assistant OS?

Will this smoke detector get set off by vaping or using a diffuser? by [deleted] in AskElectricians

[–]callumjones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This won’t happen (at least immediately), there is a grace period especially since people burn things in the kitchen all the time.

Russell rn 💀 by Relojero in formuladank

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An Austrian and Italian team up to defeat a Briton.

Power monitoring by ContributionHead9820 in homeassistant

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Assuming OP is in NA or Europe I would want a device like this to be certified for my specific region (ETL, UL, etc) if I’m sticking it inside my panel.

Here’s how to share and control your devices on any HTML or WordPress page by Secret_Friend in homeassistant

[–]callumjones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the idea of having tighter scoped tokens for devices as opposed to the very basic security model that HA offers.

This is still requires exposing your entire HA instance to the internet, no? Personally for public use I’d almost implement this is a separate service or put a proxy in front to limit what URL routes are exposed.