Home Assistant Repair Automation With BearClaw and Joanna
See how I use BearClaw infrastructure to dispatch Joanna when Home Assistant detects repair-worthy issues, then track the work from a dashboard.
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Sleep Number Health Dashboard in Home Assistant: Trends + Bed Controls
Home Assistant 2026.3 brought a bunch of monitoring improvements across integrations I already rely on. The part I wanted most was better day-to-day visibility: not a notification spam-fest,…
Home Assistant MQTT Monitoring: Detect Broker Outages and Auto-Open Repairs
Monitor your MQTT broker from Home Assistant, auto-open a Repairs issue on outages, and trigger Joanna troubleshooting so you catch failures fast.
Home Assistant Dashboard Design System (Button-Card First)
I built a button-card-first design system for Home Assistant dashboards so Lovelace views stay consistent, maintainable, and Codex-friendly.
Home Assistant YAML DRY Verifier Skill: Wrap-Up and PR Link
I shipped a new Codex skill that checks Home Assistant YAML for duplicated triggers, conditions, actions, and sequence blocks and opened it as a standalone PR.
Tugtainer: Automated Docker Updates With Home Assistant Notifications
Tugtainer now automates Docker updates across my homelab and pushes Home Assistant notifications for every container update event, giving me a clean, visible audit trail.
Cruise Tracker Price Checks + Home Assistant Alerts (Issue #1555)
I finally wired my Cruise Tracker to automatically check Royal Caribbean pricing every 6 hours, record price changes, and push a phone + HA notification when a lower…
Home Assistant Gear: Hardware, Automations and Buying Notes
The Bear Stone gear list puts the hardware beside the Home Assistant automations it powers. Pick a project, read the walkthrough, and check the buying notes before ordering…
Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)
A single Pi-hole reboot used to take my whole network’s DNS/DHCP offline. Here’s how I added a secondary DNS Pi-hole on a separate host, kept it in sync,…