Home Assistant
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My AI Coworker Maintains My Smart Home, Part 1: The Audit
My house had 1,583 automations and 88% of daily activity was one runaway checking email every 30 seconds. Part 1 of a series on the AI agent that co-manages my smart home: the a…
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I Built a Home Assistant Panel With an AI Agent, and It Has a Tamagotchi
A $60 touchscreen my wife gave me for Christmas, an AI agent, and two weeks of evenings. Five pages of controls for my house, my computer and my AI agents — plus a Tamagotchi th…
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The Pokémon Preorder Sniper (and the 2,880-Calls-a-Day Mistake)
A custom integration watches Gmail for Pokémon Center drops, has AI read the email, and fires a rich notification that deep-links to checkout. Then the confession: it ran every …
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A Local LLM Suggests, I Tap, the Thermostat Obeys
Every hour a local model looks at temps, occupancy, and solar, then answers HOLD or SUGGEST :: setpoint :: reason. Silence or a one-tap button. AI in the suggestion loop, human …
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My Porch Lights Know What Holiday It Is
A function node computes every US holiday from scratch — nth-weekday math, even the Easter algorithm — and maps each to a lighting theme. On the 4th of July it ran itself, first…
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Blinds That Follow the Sun
The blinds don’t run on a clock. They run on physics: a local solar-radiation sensor plus computed sun azimuth drive tilt all day. And when the TV turns on, the glare blind clos…
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The One-Tap “Did I Leave the House Open?” Report
Drive away and minutes later your phone gets one line: doors, locks, garage, plus a garage-cam snapshot and an AI vehicle count. If anything’s open, the notification grows a Sec…
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My House Reads Me the Morning News
Unlock the desktop before 7am and the office wakes up: TV on, news streaming, blinds tilted, and a 60-second spoken briefing built from live data. The AI never guesses; it only …
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I Gave My Cameras a Brain
Stop streaming your cameras to your phone. Ask them questions instead. Five small automations, one pattern: event happens, wait a beat, hand a frame to Gemini with a specific qu…
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My Sprinklers Clean Up After the Dog
Dogs come in, the back door locks, the cameras confirm the yard is clear, and the lawn’s dog zones get a short dilution cycle to stop burn spots. The safety chain is the interes…
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The Shopping List That Sorts Itself
Pull into the parking lot and your phone buzzes: your shopping list, rewritten in aisle order. You typed nothing new. The list you dictated all week reorganizes the moment it ma…
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Setting Up a DIY Presence Sensor with ESP32 and DFRobot CM4001 MMwave Sensor
I have always used IR sensors for motion detection, and they have worked mostly fine. The main issue is they only trigger on motion, so you have to put in delays in your automat…
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Automating Home Security with Home Assistant and AI: Skylar OTG Report
Home automation has transformed the way we interact with our living spaces. Home Assistant, combined with AI capabilities, offers powerful tools to enhance home automation. In t…
