All the Home Assistant Garage Automations We Actually Use
How I use Home Assistant garage door events as a reliable smart home signal for arrival handling, actionable entry prompts, lighting, wind alerts, nighttime checks, and Tesla plug-in…
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All the Home Assistant Vacuum Automations We Use in Our Smart Home
How I use Home Assistant to turn a Dreame L10s Ultra into an away-aware, room-queued, Alexa-friendly, rescue-notification vacuum workflow.
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.
How I Finally Knocked Out a 9-Year-Old Home Assistant Wake on LAN Todo
I finally closed a nine-year-old Home Assistant todo by wiring SleepIQ bed presence, HASS.Agent, and Wake on LAN together so my work PC can be ready before I…
Joanna Reviews Home Assistant Changelogs After Tugtainer Updates (Human in the Loop)
I wired Joanna to react to Tugtainer Home Assistant Core updates, review the official changelog, and open a GitHub Update Digest issue for human review before any follow-up…
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: Water Delivery Reminders (Night Before + Garage Alexa)
This one is simple: when I find out the water delivery is coming, I want a reminder the night before to put the bottles out. Then, on delivery…