Tag: Home Assistant Automation

Home Assistant Caught My HVAC Failure

Home Assistant Caught My HVAC Failure

How Home Assistant recorder history, Frigate footage, and a small maintenance dashboard turned a failed blower into runtime-based filter reminders and condenser line cleanout alerts. Read More

Turn a Cheap Fire Tablet Into a Home Assistant Camera Kiosk

Turn a Cheap Fire Tablet Into a Home Assistant Camera Kiosk

A cheap Fire tablet becomes much more useful when it has one focused Home Assistant job: a purpose-built camera kiosk with big camera tiles, Fully ... Read More

Home Assistant Vacation Mode: A Smarter Way to Watch the House While You’re Away

Home Assistant Vacation Mode: A Smarter Way to Watch the House While You’re Away

Build a Home Assistant Vacation Mode that tracks sitter visits, sends useful reminders, checks doors and locks, and uses the video for the full walkthrough. Read More

Home Assistant YAML DRY Verifier Skill: Wrap-Up and PR Link

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 ... Read More

My Home Assistant Vacuum Automation! Rescue Me Mode!

My Home Assistant Vacuum Automation! Rescue Me Mode!

This weekend, I finished up a project giving my Neato D7 Robot vacuum a voice in the house to alert us when it gets stuck. ... Read More