Local Holiday Countdowns in Home Assistant with Python and Codex
Replace Wolfram Alpha holiday lookups with local Python calculations while keeping Home Assistant countdown sensors, personalized speech, and seasonal lighting.
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Replace Wolfram Alpha holiday lookups with local Python calculations while keeping Home Assistant countdown sensors, personalized speech, and seasonal lighting.
Codex reset credits can expire quietly. This Home Assistant automation tracks reset-credit JSON, renders dashboard expiry cards, and keeps a Repair alive until the expiring reset clears.
I pushed more infrastructure monitoring into Home Assistant, then used Joanna as an AGENT engineer handoff for Synology DSM and disk-pressure issues.
I built a nightly Joanna scout that reviews watched GitHub repos, ignores bug noise, opens research issues, and leaves me a digest to review.
If you're a Home Assistant user, you know that automations can be an incredibly useful tool for automating tasks and making your smart home more efficient. But sometimes,…