Stop Getting Blinded by Your Smart Lights at Night
Set a gentler brightness for any dimmable light that turns on at night, without maintaining a light list. A complete Home Assistant package and a short YAML walkthrough.
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Cloudflare Webhooks Are Free: Website Alerts in Home Assistant
Bring Cloudflare certificate, tunnel, and origin alerts into Home Assistant with authenticated webhooks, persistent Repairs, and verified recovery.
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.
Track Codex Resets in Home Assistant Before They Expire
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.
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.
Home Assistant MQTT Monitoring: Detect Broker Outages and Auto-Open Repairs
Monitor your MQTT broker from Home Assistant, auto-open a Repairs issue on outages, and trigger Joanna troubleshooting so you catch failures fast.
Home Assistant Dashboard Design System (Button-Card First)
I built a button-card-first design system for Home Assistant dashboards so Lovelace views stay consistent, maintainable, and Codex-friendly.
Home Assistant Pet Automation Example
This week, I had the opportunity to showcase a super cool automation that I ran across on our Home Automation Facebook Group. Zerath posted their Home Assistant automation…