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Why My Home Assistant Motion Lighting Became Smarter: Moving From Sensors to Room Awareness

Motion lighting is one of the first automations many Home Assistant users create. A motion sensor detects movement, the light turns on, and after a few minutes without activity, the…

Lars 05/11/2026

Automation Home Automation Smart home

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.…

Lars 31/10/2026

Automation Home Automation Smart home

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…

Lars 26/10/2026

Automation Home Automation Smart home

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…

Lars 18/10/2026

Automation Smart home

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…

Lars 16/10/2026

Automation Smart home

From Motion Sensors to Presence Intelligence: Why mmWave Changes Smart Home Automation

For many years, motion sensors have been the foundation of smart home lighting. Someone walks into a room. A sensor detects movement. The lights turn on. After a few minutes…

Lars 14/10/2026

Smart home

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…

Lars 10/10/2026

Home 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.…

Lars 08/10/2026