Smart Home

Real-world smart home builds with Home Assistant, sensors, and integrations that survive past the honeymoon period.

Home Assistant blueprints: 3 domains, hundreds of templates

Home Assistant Blueprints are reusable templates for automations and scripts. Define a pattern once and spawn it in every room with form inputs.

Home Assistant dashboards: 6 conditional card types and HACS extensions

Build context-aware Home Assistant dashboards with conditional cards. Show or hide elements by state, time, presence, and screen size automatically.

HDMI-CEC one-tap theater scenes: movie, gaming, music modes

Control your home theater with HDMI-CEC and Home Assistant automations. Build one-tap theater scenes that replace all remotes with a single dashboard.

Home Assistant packages: split config from 2000 to 30

Split Home Assistant configuration.yaml into packages by function. Organize automations, sensors, scripts, and templates for large smart home setups.

Snapcast multi-room audio system: 5 rooms under $300

Build a cloud-free multi-room audio system with Snapcast and Home Assistant. Sub-millisecond sync across five rooms, an affordable Sonos rival.

Home Assistant smart irrigation: local control, $25-89 hardware

Build a smart garden irrigation system with Home Assistant, a rain sensor, and automations. No subscriptions, full local control, $25-89 in parts.