Claude Auto-Configures Home Assistant and Blocks External Connections
_mbdr_ · x · 2026-08-26
A user tasked Claude with connecting a Chinese air quality monitor while preventing data from phoning home to the CCP. Claude set up a Home Assistant Docker container, SSH'd into the router to add WAN deny rules, and found community packages to connect an 8sleep mattress, automating a workflow that would have been a blog post years ago.
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