AI co-pilot revamps a cluttered Home Assistant into a proactive smart home

Dhruv Bhutani chronicles using Claude as a local AI co-pilot to audit, clean, and extend a self-hosted Home Assistant setup via an MCP proxy and browser automation, uncovering duplicates and misconfigurations, crafting new automations, and proposing proactive optimizations like presence-based climate control—showing AI can dramatically streamline smart-home maintenance while also highlighting security and reliability caveats of browser-based AI control.