Water Softener Salt, Tracked By Home Assistant
Track water softener salt in Home Assistant with one webhook, validation guards, helper state, template sensors, dashboard history, and follow-up automations.
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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.
Tesla Powerwall Stopped Charging: Home Assistant Watchdog
A Home Assistant watchdog for a Tesla Powerwall that stopped charging before Hurricane Milton: outage visibility, load shedding, charging alerts, and safe recovery.
Home Assistant Leak Detection Automations
A practical Home Assistant leak-detection automation pattern using a water shutoff valve, maintenance guards, Activity Feed logging, Repairs tracking, and actionable phone notifications.
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 Kiosk controls, bedtime…
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.
The Weekly Digest Is Back: Smart Home Automation Ideas from My Home Assistant Config
The weekly digest is back for my Home Assistant configuration repo, giving you a weekly way to follow new automations, resolved issues, commit activity, and smart home ideas…
How I Turned Joanna Into an AGENT Engineer for Home Assistant Infrastructure Issues
I pushed more infrastructure monitoring into Home Assistant, then used Joanna as an AGENT engineer handoff for Synology DSM and disk-pressure issues.
Home Assistant GitHub Notifications: How Joanna Finds Nightly Automation Ideas
I built a nightly Joanna scout that reviews watched GitHub repos, ignores bug noise, opens research issues, and leaves me a digest to review.