Blog posts in category “Home automation”
Smart home, home automation, Home Assistant and home lab. Posts about tinkering with tech at home.
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Sep 30th, 2026Two new tiny Home Assistant improvements I made recently
I recently added a “prevent next automation” latch and visibility setting for a volume control to my Home Assistant setup.
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Oct 29th, 2025Progressive enhancement is a crucial design principle for smart devices
Don’t buy or design devices that rely on 3rd party services to do things that don’t need 3rd party service. Like your vacuum cleaner, bed or smart home stuff.
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Aug 15th, 2025Network stress test for my smart home
I aim to build my home automations so that nothing relies on Internet connection and I got to put that into a test when one morning my internet was disconnected by the ISP.
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Aug 13th, 2025I really like Home Assistant’s triggers and actions model for its flexibility
Separating inputs and outputs opens up the opportunities so much that I keep coming up with small improvements that I can implement through Home Assistant. For example, my light switch can boot up my entire home entertainment system in my living room.