My AI Coworker Maintains My Smart Home, Part 1: The Audit
My house had 1,583 automations and 88% of daily activity was one runaway checking email…
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I Built a Home Assistant Panel With an AI Agent, and It Has a Tamagotchi
A $60 touchscreen my wife gave me for Christmas, an AI agent, and two weeks…
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The Pokémon Preorder Sniper (and the 2,880-Calls-a-Day Mistake)
A custom integration watches Gmail for Pokémon Center drops, has AI read the email, and…
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A Local LLM Suggests, I Tap, the Thermostat Obeys
Every hour a local model looks at temps, occupancy, and solar, then answers HOLD or…
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My Porch Lights Know What Holiday It Is
A function node computes every US holiday from scratch — nth-weekday math, even the Easter…
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Blinds That Follow the Sun
The blinds don't run on a clock. They run on physics: a local solar-radiation sensor…
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The One-Tap “Did I Leave the House Open?” Report
Drive away and minutes later your phone gets one line: doors, locks, garage, plus a…
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My House Reads Me the Morning News
Unlock the desktop before 7am and the office wakes up: TV on, news streaming, blinds…
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I Gave My Cameras a Brain
Stop streaming your cameras to your phone. Ask them questions instead. Five small automations, one…
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My Sprinklers Clean Up After the Dog
Dogs come in, the back door locks, the cameras confirm the yard is clear, and…