🏠 Home Assistant

The new triggers and conditions make Home Assistant automations more approachable, more powerful, and easier to extend without taking away the power underneath.

Home Assistant automation modes decide what happens when an automation is triggered again while it is still running. Here is when to use single, restart, queued, or parallel.

A smart home is not magic sustainability dust. The useful part is measurement, local control, and keeping good devices useful longer.

It started with a DOOM t-shirt at a meetup. The real question? Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Two hours later, I had a fully working DOOM integration for Home Assistant and was fighting demons on my smart home dashboard.

New Home Assistant users constantly hit the same confusion: add-ons or integrations? Both sound like things you add, but serve different purposes. I just proposed renaming add-ons to apps. It's more than terminology, it's about clarity for millions of users.

People assume my smart home is a futuristic, perfectly automated masterpiece. The reality? Let’s just say… it’s time for some confessions. 😰

A home battery that you can install yourself. No electrician, no complicated setup—just plug it in, and it works (allegedly).

This blog is for those people whose daily job is IT-related (DevOps, developers, system administrators, etc) and who are using Home Assistant at home. If you fit that description, you just might suffer from what I call: The enterprise smart home syndrome. When working in IT, you’ll often

I’ve built quite a few add-ons for Hass.io, the Docker management system for Home Assistant; and because of that, I get a lot of requests for building all different kinds of add-ons, like WireGuard. Update: This is a 2019 launch post. Some names have changed since