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The Night Your Smart Home Became Haunted: A Halloween Automation Story
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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.…
Posted by Lars 31/10/2026
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
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
Understanding Thread in Home Assistant – Part 4: Troubleshooting, Migration and the Future of Thread
Posted inHome Automation Matter Thread

Understanding Thread in Home Assistant – Part 4: Troubleshooting, Migration and the Future of Thread

In the previous parts of this series, we explored what Thread is, how to build a reliable network in Home Assistant, and how to use Thread devices in practical automations.…
Posted by Lars 08/10/2026
Understanding Thread in Home Assistant – Part 3: Practical Automations with Thread
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Understanding Thread in Home Assistant – Part 3: Practical Automations with Thread

In Part 1 and Part 2, we focused on understanding what Thread is and how to build a stable Thread network using Home Assistant and Border Routers. Now we move…
Posted by Lars 05/10/2026
Building a Personalized Smart Home Gym with Home Assistant
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Building a Personalized Smart Home Gym with Home Assistant

A home gym is usually just a room with some equipment, a TV, and maybe a speaker. But what if the room could adapt automatically to the person using it?…
Posted by Lars 11/09/2026
120 Zigbee Devices Later: My Move from Zigbee2MQTT to ZHA
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120 Zigbee Devices Later: My Move from Zigbee2MQTT to ZHA

I have recently started a new project in my Home Assistant setup that I have called "Better Zigbee". The goal is not necessarily to replace something that was broken. In…
Posted by Lars 25/07/2026

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