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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
