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Automating My Home: Integrations, Devices, and the Automations That Tie Them Together
A ~320-device smart home, from the protocol integrations that talk to the hardware to the automations that run the house. How Home Assistant ties it together.
Directly controlling WiZ bulbs from ESPHome
How to drive a set of Wi-Fi bulbs straight from an ESPHome device over the local UDP API, so a plain wall switch controls them and Home Assistant sees one dimmable light instead of nine.
My Homelab, Mapped: The Infrastructure, the Network, and the Applications
A tour of my home data center, covering a 4-node Proxmox cluster, OPNsense routing five VLANs, UniFi-managed Wi-Fi and switching, and the eleven workloads that run the house. The what, why, and how behind every layer.
HA-Chromium-Kiosk, 2026: fixes, releases, and real demos
A year-stale open-source tool got a real overhaul: three releases, real bugs fixed, and actual demo footage against a live Home Assistant instance.
Upgrading My Home Network: Moving from UDM Base + BeaconHD to OPNsense + UniFi U6 APs
Migrating a 100+ device home network from an all-in-one UniFi Dream Machine to a virtualized OPNsense + UniFi Network Server setup with Wi-Fi 6 APs.
How to Set Up Home Assistant Chromium Dashboard in Kiosk Mode
Running a Home Assistant dashboard fullscreen on a Debian touchscreen device using Chromium kiosk mode, automated with a setup script.
Automating a 3-Way Switch with Shelly + Home Assistant: Part 1 — Wiring
Decoupling smart bulbs from smart switches using a Shelly 1 relay behind a 3-way switch, so the physical switch still works when automation doesn't.
A Better Home Network Using UDM
Segmenting a growing pile of smart home devices into VLANs with the UniFi Dream Machine, and why prosumer gear beat consumer all-in-one routers.