When Home Assistant's OpenThread Border Router Kept Disconnecting
My OTBR kept losing its Ethernet Thread RCP during Matter commissioning. Here is how I ruled out the network, tested versions, and stabilised one setup.
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How I Centralized Notifications Across 28 Home Assistant Automations
After several months with one central Home Assistant notification script, I can route 28 automations by presence, room occupancy, priority, and night mode without teaching every automation about my phones and speakers.
How I Made My VELUX KLF-200 Recover Itself in Home Assistant
After three KLF-200 connection failures, I turned my manual recovery routine into a bounded Home Assistant automation.
What My Home Assistant Data Revealed About My Daily Routine
A read-only experiment in my own Home Assistant showed how a small set of entity histories can reveal broad routine patterns — and why I treat account security as a privacy issue.
How I Use Frigate and Home Assistant for a Visual Door Alert
I built a manual, presence-aware Frigate alert that flashes my office light when someone reaches the door.
How I Moved My Samsung Washer from SmartThings to LocalThings in Home Assistant
I moved one Samsung washer-dryer's Home Assistant monitoring from SmartThings to LocalThings. Here are the commands, entity changes, template, and automation I used—and why I kept the SmartThings app.