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Home Assistant Marketplace: HACS Gets a New Home
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Home Assistant Marketplace: HACS Gets a New Home

For years, Home Assistant users have relied on HACS to discover custom integrations, dashboard cards, themes and other community-made goodies. It has been one of those essential additions that makes…
Posted by Lars 28/10/2026
Preparing Your Smart Home for Halloween: Building Your Own Haunted House with Home Assistant
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Preparing Your Smart Home for Halloween: Building Your Own Haunted House with Home Assistant

Most of the year, we ask our smart homes to behave. We want automations to be reliable. We want lights to turn on when we enter a room. We want…
Posted by Lars 26/10/2026
3D-Printed LED House Numbers with WLED and Home Assistant
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3D-Printed LED House Numbers with WLED and Home Assistant

Sometimes the best DIY projects start with a simple idea, a 3D printer, and an LED strip that refuses to cooperate. House numbers are supposed to be easy to read.…
Posted by Lars 24/10/2026
Škoda Is Opening the Door to Home Assistant
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Škoda Is Opening the Door to Home Assistant

For years, connecting a modern car to a smart home has sometimes felt like trying to connect two neighbours who deliberately refuse to exchange phone numbers. The car manufacturer has…
Posted by Lars 22/10/2026
Replacing Automation Spaghetti: How Helpers, Templates and Groups Create Maintainable Home Assistant Systems
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Replacing Automation Spaghetti: How Helpers, Templates and Groups Create Maintainable Home Assistant Systems

When you first start using Home Assistant, automation design feels simple. A sensor changes. Something happens. A device reacts. Your first automation might look like this: "Turn on the hallway…
Posted by Lars 18/10/2026
The Smart Home Brain: Building a Context Layer in Home Assistant
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The Smart Home Brain: Building a Context Layer in Home Assistant

When people start building a smart home, the first automations are usually simple. A motion sensor turns on a light. A temperature sensor controls a heater. A door sensor sends…
Posted by Lars 16/10/2026
From Motion Sensors to Presence Intelligence: Why mmWave Changes Smart Home Automation
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From Motion Sensors to Presence Intelligence: Why mmWave Changes Smart Home Automation

For many years, motion sensors have been the foundation of smart home lighting. Someone walks into a room. A sensor detects movement. The lights turn on. After a few minutes…
Posted by Lars 14/10/2026
Smart Homes as Support in Everyday Life
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Smart Homes as Support in Everyday Life

World Mental Health Day (October 10): How Home Automation Can Improve Wellbeing October 10 is World Mental Health Day, a global reminder that mental health is just as important as…
Posted by Lars 10/10/2026

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