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2026 13 posts

  1. Laya on an N100: Swapping Jev for a Local Model in Home Assistant, and Teaching It My House with Hindsightnewread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Jev & System One

    20 min

  2. Jev in Home Assistant, Take Two: History, Feedback, and Why I Didn't Go Localread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Jev & System One

    11 min

  3. Jev in Home Assistant: Letting a Decision Model Make the Judgement Callsread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Jev & System One

    23 min

  4. The Sump Pump in the Spotlight: Monitoring Hidden Infrastructure with Home Assistantread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    13 min

  5. The Smart Water Heater, 4 Years Later: Solar + Off-Peak Orchestration (v2)read

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Solar & home energy

    11 min

  6. Arlo Base Station Deep Dive: Battery Drain, Sniffed Data, and Router Configread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Self-hosted Arlo

    17 min

  7. Fixing Arlo Camera Battery Life at the WiFi Layerread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Self-hosted Arlo

    13 min

  8. Integrating Your Self-Hosted Arlo Stack with Home Assistant: Sensors, Automations and the Lovelace Dashboardread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Self-hosted Arlo

    33 min

  9. Self-Hosting Arlo on Your Own Server: Stack, Patches and Lessons Learnedread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Self-hosted Arlo

    24 min

  10. Replacing the Arlo Base Station with a Netgear Orbi Routerread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Self-hosted Arlo

    34 min

  11. Monitoring Your Water Softener Salt Level with Home Assistantread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    3 min

  12. Home Assistant: Smart Cover Control Based on Temperature - 3 Years Laterread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    6 min

  13. Two Years of Solar: The Real Numbers, the Real ROIread

    Solar & Home Energy Solar & home energy

    16 min

2024 1 post

  1. Integrating the Everblue Smart Water Meter with Home Assistantread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    5 min

2023 2 posts

  1. Home Assistant: motion sensor coupled with a switchread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min

  2. HomeAssistant: Close cover to control the home temperatureread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    5 min

2022 8 posts

  1. Home Assistant: use ZigBee buttons to control other protocol devicesread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min

  2. Home Assistant: simple "presence simulation" scriptread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min

  3. Home Assistant: control automation with Google Calendarread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    3 min

  4. OpenVPN on Google WiFi via OpenWRTread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    3 min

  5. InkPlate 10 Home Assistant Boardread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    3 min

  6. HomeAssistant: detect washing machine cycle completionread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min

  7. Smart Water Heater with Home Assistant and Shelly deviceread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant Solar & home energy

    3 min

  8. Smart VMC (Mechanical Ventilation System)read

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    7 min

2021 2 posts

  1. Upgrade ConBee2 Firmware in HassOSread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    3 min

  2. Home Assistant with RPi4 - Improvementsread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    5 min

2018 2 posts

  1. Qubino ZMNHJD1 and Home Assistant installationread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min

  2. Install Z-Wave Plus Z-Stick GEN5 — Aeon Labs in Home Assistant (RPi version)read

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min

2017 1 post

  1. PushBullet notifications for Kerberos.ioread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    2 min

2013 1 post

  1. RaspberryPI: Motion and Noise detectionread

    Smart Home & Home Assistant

    4 min