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Carlo Costanzo · 25+ years in technology
Longtime VMware vExpert honoree
The latest project
Replace Wolfram Alpha holiday lookups with local Python calculations while keeping Home Assistant countdown sensors, personalized speech, and seasonal lighting.
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Replace Wolfram Alpha holiday lookups with local Python calculations while keeping Home Assistant countdown sensors, personalized speech, and seasonal lighting.
Replace cloud LLM Vision package checks with local Frigate state classification. Keep your Home Assistant helpers and alerts, and let Codex help train the model on your own…
Bring Cloudflare certificate, tunnel, and origin alerts into Home Assistant with authenticated webhooks, persistent Repairs, and verified recovery.
Give Home Assistant iPhone alerts colored icons for packages, driveway cars, and vacuum help. Copy the nested YAML fields or use shared notification presets.
Turn the read-only status pages on an AT&T BGW210 or BGW320 gateway into local telemetry for Home Assistant, Docker, and AI agents.
Use the Tesla Fleet PSI sensors in Home Assistant to warn below 40 PSI, add a morning action item, and snooze the reminder for one or three days.
Use a Frigate car zone and a 30-second loitering threshold to send a camera-backed Home Assistant alert to both phones and route optional speech through an LLM-backed announcement…
Codex Tray puts weekly Codex usage, reset timing, reset credits, token totals, and reset alerts in the Windows notification area.
One photo, one prompt, and an already signed-in Edge session became a researched, reviewed Facebook Marketplace listing with Codex.
The person behind the projects
I’m a senior virtualization consultant, longtime VMware vExpert honoree, and the person behind vCloudInfo and the Bear Stone Smart Home. I share what I learn so you can build on it.
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