Notes on local-first AI, smart-home protocols, privacy, and the work behind Nexop.
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KNX hardware routinely outlasts the software written to control it. The bus is not the problem — the layer on top of it is, and that layer can be replaced without touching a single wire.
Read articleHome Assistant can already run a local LLM as its conversation agent, and it works better than most people expect. Here is what that gets you, what it does not, and where the remaining gap actually is.
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Every smart home can be told what to do. Almost none can work out what you would probably want. Here is what proactive automation means, why suggestion beats action, and where it goes wrong.
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Forget privacy for a moment. The strongest argument against cloud-dependent smart homes is that they break in ways ordinary appliances never do — and you can audit your own home for it in an afternoon.
Read articleMost comparisons line these up as four competing options. They are not. One of them is not even the same kind of thing, and understanding why makes buying decisions much easier.
Read articleThe hardware is cheap because the software is rented. Here is what actually gets locked behind a monthly fee, which of those fees are honest, and how to build a home that does not have any.
Read articleHub, bridge, controller, assistant — the words have blurred to the point of being useless. Here is what a local AI hub actually is, and how to tell whether you need one.
Read articleSmart homes today are either too dumb to be useful, too cloud-locked to be private, or too expensive to be worth it. We're trying for a fourth option.
Read articleIf your home needs the cloud to know what room you are in, it is not really your home. Local-first AI changes where the intelligence lives.
Read articleNexop is a Maajtek product, built around one belief: the intelligent home should still belong to the people living in it.
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