So I've been ruminating on my smart home and it's general lack of knowledge. I've hooked up MCP servers into Claude, and am able to do basic things via the assistant pipeline. I want to take things to the next level so I'm integrating N8N and Obsidian via the http API plugin. So far I have a webhook that has 6 paths, the first one is monitoring automation errors, it takes the error code and sends it to openAI gpt-5-mini to review and propose fixes for my automations(this is primarily used when I'm building a new automations to debug and diagnose code issues) it also has a couple of inventory functions it stores all of my devices, automations (including versioned yaml files) and details about them in the Obsidian brain where it can read/access them later. Logs are shipped to my wazuh server and I have it working as a seim for HA logs and sending a webhook back to the N8N brain whenever any error shows in the logs, it batches and deduplicates errors for review every 8 hours. It can add notes in the inventory files during its review and those persist for long term knowledge and tracking flaky devices. I have a maintenance log as well to track things like filter changes, battery replacement etc. up next is storing details of things like emergency service contacts, local fire and police. What ways are you using AI in your smart home? 🏡 I would love to see some more interesting use cases.
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So I've been ruminating on my smart home and it's general lack of knowledge. I've hooked up MCP servers into Claude, and am able to do basic things via the assistant pipeline. I want to take things to the next level so I'm integrating N8N and Obsidian via the http API plugin. So far I have a webhook that has 6 paths, the first one is monitoring automation errors, it takes the error code and sends it to openAI gpt-5-mini to review and propose fixes for my automations(this is primarily used when I'm building a new automations to debug and diagnose code issues) it also has a couple of inventory functions it stores all of my devices, automations (including versioned yaml files) and details about them in the Obsidian brain where it can read/access them later. Logs are shipped to my wazuh server and I have it working as a siem for HA logs and sending a webhook back to the N8N brain whenever any error shows in the logs, it batches and deduplicates errors for review every 8 hours. It can add notes in the inventory files during its review and those persist for long term knowledge and tracking flaky devices. I have a maintenance log as well to track things like filter changes, battery replacement etc. up next is storing details of things like emergency service contacts, local fire and police. What ways are you using AI in your smart home? 🏡 I would love to see some more interesting use cases.