Published Nov 9, 2026, 3:30 PM EST

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar.

Home Assistant may be a killer smart home management platform, but once you load it with the right set of integrations and apps, it can even accommodate non-IoT paraphernalia. On the self-hosted front, it can pair with everything from Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and llama.cpp to entire home lab platforms like Proxmox and TrueNAS. But if you’re as much of a 3D printing enthusiast as I am, you’ll find a bunch of cool first- and third-party integrations for your model-making companion.

In fact, I’ve got my Elegoo Centauri Carbon 1 and 2 hooked up to HASS, and it makes managing their prints quite easy with its neat dashboards and trigger-action automations.…