Smart Home

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

Better presence detection with Bayesian sensors in Home Assistant

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.

Solar automations and Adaptive Lighting align your home's light with circadian rhythm, improving sleep with gradual wake-up and wind-down routines.

Use trigger.entity_id in Home Assistant YAML to target the switch that fired the automation, without hardcoding entity IDs in your action block.