Our smart home

Is Your Home Assistant Haunted? Meet Spook, Your Smart Home’s Ghost Hunter

Updated November 2026 There is something wonderfully ironic about a smart home. You can have more than a hundred connected devices, dozens of automations, intelligent lighting, energy monitoring, and a…

Lars 10/11/2026

Smart home

STEM at Home: 10 Creative Projects Combining Home Assistant, ESP32 and 3D Printing

World STEM Day is a good opportunity to look at the technology in our homes from a slightly different perspective. A smart home is not only about buying sensors, switches…

Lars 08/11/2026

Automation Smart home

Why My Home Assistant Motion Lighting Became Smarter: Moving From Sensors to Room Awareness

Motion lighting is one of the first automations many Home Assistant users create. A motion sensor detects movement, the light turns on, and after a few minutes without activity, the…

Lars 05/11/2026

Automation

Getting Your Home Assistant Ready for Autumn

Autumn is when a smart home starts earning its name. During summer, the house can mostly look after itself. The sun is up early, the evenings are bright, heating is…

Lars 02/11/2026

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The Night Your Smart Home Became Haunted: A Halloween Automation Story

Every other day of the year, we ask our smart homes to behave. Turn on the lights. Save energy. Keep the temperature comfortable. Send important notifications. Be reliable. Predictable. Boring.…

Lars 31/10/2026

Home Automation

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…

Lars 28/10/2026

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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…

Lars 26/10/2026

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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.…

Lars 24/10/2026