Smart Home

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

Version control HA config with GitHub, not snapshots

Back up your Home Assistant config to GitHub as code. Git-based backups are diff-able and restorable, more practical than snapshots for recovery.

Build responsive Home Assistant dashboards with CSS Grid and HACS cards like button-card to create modern control centers that rival commercial apps.

Bayesian sensors combine Wi-Fi, GPS, motion, and power into one probability estimate, so the lights stop turning off while you are still home.

Matter 1.4 unifies smart home ecosystems while Zigbee2MQTT still wins on battery life and range. Run both: Matter for new gear, Zigbee for the rest.

Set up Home Assistant AI voice with a local LLM. Which Ollama models handle tool calling, a sub-second latency budget, and ESP32 satellites.

Create Home Assistant integrations by wrapping device APIs in Python and shipping via HACS. Covers config flows, entity platforms, coordinators.