Weekly Update 513: Clauding The Home Network
Summary
Troy Hunt shares how he used Claude to integrate data from UniFi, Home Assistant, and Pi-Hole to gain insights into his home network, and how Claude quickly identified a dead Pi-Hole as the cause of a Sonos connectivity issue.
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# Weekly Update 513: Clauding The Home Network
Source: [https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-513/](https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-513/)
I reckon this week's video on how Claude is tying together info from UniFi, Home Assistant and the Pi\-Hole is an absolute ripper\. Or at least the concept is \- if ever there was an actual value proposition for AI it's taking lots of noise and converting it into a useful signal\. Or, sometimes, it's just helping you see the woods through the trees, and that's exactly what Claude helped me do last night when every Sonos unit in the house refused to connect to any music service\. It only took Claude a moment to work out: "you know your Pi\-Hole is dead, right?" Uh\.\.\. I do now\! Give it a go, it's pretty awesome \(and the Pi\-Hole came good with a power cycle on the PoE port\)\.
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