"HomeClaw Max": New Mini-PC aims to combine Home Assistant and OpenClaw

[Redaktion]

Tech enthusiasts in particular appreciate Home Assistant, as the smart home platform offers virtually unlimited possibilities. The company LinknLink now wants to combine these with the advantages of the AI assistant OpenClaw - in a mini-PC named HomeClaw Max.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HomeClaw-Max-New-Mini-PC-aims-to-combine-Home-Assistant-and-OpenClaw.1402852.0.html

[ixekcl]

Cute, but pointless. Why would you need yet-another device for this when you can add this sort of functionality to any computer you already have handy.

Also, is Openclaw even still a thing nowadays? It was a fad on socials last winter, functionally it was a mess.

[zeel]

How is this different from a Raspberry Pi which can already run Home Assistant?

[n.]

it's a pointless solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Unless you want to make your home 'intelligent' at a massive cost, so that you create a problem and you'll need to somehow solve it by adding yet another point of failure that underpins the whole 'system' so that it will collapse all at once, rather than bit by bit. Enter the HomeClaw Max, no doubt, in future variants rebranded as 'Titanium HomeClaw Ultra'