Skip to content
Technology, Applied.
  • Articles
  • About
  • How this publication works
  1. Home
  2. Articles

Topic

Privacy & Local Control

What leaves the house, what stays, and how much control is actually available.

Privacy & Local Control /19 September 2026 / 5 min read

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.

Technology, Applied.

Exploring technology through real-world use and turning experience into insight.

Original hands-on work by Lukas Knöller. Adapted for an international audience with AI assistance — how this publication works.

  • About
  • How this publication works
  • Privacy
  • Imprint
  • Cookie policy
  • RSS

© 2026 Technology, Applied.

Cookie settings

This site works without tracking. Necessary storage keeps your choices on this device. Optional categories stay switched off until you allow them — and today no service is registered in either of them. Cookie policy

Required for the site to work. Currently this is only the local storage entry that remembers your cookie choice and your light/dark preference. It is never used to track you and never leaves your browser.

Would allow measuring which articles are read, so the publication can decide what to work on next. No analytics service is currently in use.

Would allow advertising and embedded third-party media (for example video players). No such service is currently in use.