Home Assistant

Lux sensors sound simple until the lights you turn on trip the sensor that turned them on. Here's the full chain, from Aqara T1 to Matter's missing...

Wi-Fi IoT ships locked to vendor clouds by default. Here's what it takes to break out — and where Wi-Fi is actually the right tool.

Picking a Zigbee RGB controller is the easy part — sizing the power supply and keeping mains water out is where patio lighting projects live or die.

Display over fiber is the easy part. USB is where it gets annoying — and the single-UPS dream doesn't quite close.

A fried fiber modem raises the real question: where do you draw the line between preparedness and "done enough"?

Daniel wants a pigeon notification, not a custom model. Frigate already ships with bird detection — the real work is masks, zones, and filters.

mpv remembers. MPRIS, GstPlay, and Media3 don't. There's no standard for playback history.

What if a task force treated light and time as public infrastructure? The science of circadian alignment — and the policies that follow.

That dead-battery laptop in your drawer can still serve. Here's the whole playbook — headless Linux, thermals, and the battery question nobody agre...