ESPHome – Our 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 Home Automation Smart home

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?…

Lars 11/09/2026

Automation

When Your Bathroom Starts a Sauna Without Asking: Smart Humidity Control with Home Assistant

Bathrooms are funny places. One minute it’s a calm, tiled sanctuary. The next, it looks like a tropical rainforest where someone forgot to install wildlife and moderation. Mirrors fog up,…

Lars 19/08/2026

Automation Smart home

🍺 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:…

Lars 07/08/2026

Automation

Use Blitzortung Lightning Alerts to Protect Your Home with Home Assistant

Summer thunderstorms can arrive quickly, especially in areas where weather conditions change fast. While most Home Assistant users connect Blitzortung lightning data to visual notifications or fun effects like flashing…

Lars 20/07/2026

Automation Smart home

😀 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…

Lars 17/07/2026

Automation

From Performance Tracking to Anomaly Detection: Building a “Safety Layer” for Zwift in Home Assistant

Most Home Assistant setups that integrate Zwift or cycling platforms tend to focus on performance: heart rate zones, power curves, calories burned, progress over time, and colorful lighting effects that…

Lars 12/07/2026

Automation Smart home

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…

Lars 04/07/2026