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When Your Smart Home Screams for Help: Reading a Week of Home Assistant Logs

This is a longer post than usual because the log tells several connected stories at once: noisy local device failures, cloud dependency problems, and the unexpected ways network filtering can interfere with a smart home. If the short version is all that is needed, the TL;DR is just below.

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From Bulb Soup to Clarity: Cleaning Up My Home Assistant Overview

How I started taming a cluttered Home Assistant Overview dashboard by using helpers to turn individual bulbs into meaningful objects.

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Inside My Home Assistant Setup: Raspberry Pi, Hue Lights, And The Next Three Upgrades

Where my Home Assistant journey is right now — a Raspberry Pi core, a mix of lighting and heating gear, and the three upgrades that will turn it into real day-to-day infrastructure.

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