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Beginner-Friendly Home Assistant Automations, Part 3: Smart Notifications and Monitoring
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Beginner-Friendly Home Assistant Automations, Part 3: Smart Notifications and Monitoring

In Part 1 of this series, we explored automations based on lighting and presence detection. In Part 2, we looked at time-based automations and daily routines. Now it is time…
Posted by Lars 04/09/2026
Beginner-Friendly Home Assistant Automations, Part 2: Time and Daily Routines
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Beginner-Friendly Home Assistant Automations, Part 2: Time and Daily Routines

In the first part of this beginner-friendly Home Assistant series, we looked at practical automations based on lighting and presence detection. Those automations react to what is happening right now:…
Posted by Lars 01/09/2026
5 Useful Home Assistant Automations You Can Build in 30 Minutes
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5 Useful Home Assistant Automations You Can Build in 30 Minutes

Getting started with Home Assistant can feel overwhelming. There are thousands of integrations, countless dashboards to build, and endless possibilities for automation. But if you are just starting out, the…
Posted by Lars 29/08/2026
Building an Evening Mode in Home Assistant
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Building an Evening Mode in Home Assistant

A smart home should not only react to individual events but also adapt to routines throughout the day. One of the most useful automations I have built in Home Assistant…
Posted by Lars 22/08/2026
🍺 International Beer Day Meets Home Assistant: When Your House Starts Celebrating Before You Do
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🍺 International Beer Day Meets Home Assistant: When Your House Starts Celebrating Before You Do

Every year on the first Friday of August, the world celebrates International Beer Day — a noble occasion dedicated to barley, hops, yeast, and the ancient human tradition of saying:…
Posted by Lars 07/08/2026
😀 World Emoji Day in Home Assistant – Making Smart Homes a Little More Fun
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😀 World Emoji Day in Home Assistant – Making Smart Homes a Little More Fun

Smart homes often focus on efficiency, automation, and optimization. But there is one thing that is frequently missing from dashboards and automations: personality. Every year on 17 July, we celebrate…
Posted by Lars 17/07/2026
Tour de France Automation Magic: Connecting Zwift, Home Assistant, and Smart Lighting
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Tour de France Automation Magic: Connecting Zwift, Home Assistant, and Smart Lighting

When the Tour de France begins each summer, it turns everyday TV viewing into a months-long celebration of endurance, strategy, and pure suffering (for the riders at least). But if…
Posted by Lars 04/07/2026
Flashing Your Home with WLED When Your Dreame Vacuum Finishes Cleaning (and More Fun Automations)
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Flashing Your Home with WLED When Your Dreame Vacuum Finishes Cleaning (and More Fun Automations)

Smart homes are at their best when they don’t just automate tasks—they communicate. One of the most satisfying “tiny joy” automations you can build is visual feedback: your lights reacting…
Posted by Lars 14/06/2026

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