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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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Smart Homes as Support in Everyday Life
World Mental Health Day (October 10): How Home Automation Can Improve Wellbeing October 10 is World Mental Health Day, a global reminder that mental health is just as important as…
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Understanding Thread in Home Assistant – Part 2: Building a Reliable Thread Network
In Part 1, we covered the fundamentals of Thread: what it is, how it differs from Matter, and how End Devices, Thread Routers and Border Routers work together to form…
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From Alarm Clock to Coffee Maker: Designing the Perfect Smart Morning Routine
There are many reasons people build a smart home. Some want lower energy costs. Some want better security. Some want advanced dashboards with graphs, sensors, and statistics. And some people…
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Understanding Thread in Home Assistant – Part 1: Thread, Matter and the Modern Smart Home
Smart home ecosystems are evolving quickly, and two technologies are now at the center of that evolution: Thread and Matter. If you are using Home Assistant today, especially with devices…