Digital Ghosts: The Insteon Story
A Crisis of Ownership Imagine waking up one morning to find that your expensive, professionally installed smart lighting system no longer responds. The switches installed in the wall still work, […]
The Broken Promise of Alexa+
Amazon’s Latest ‘Upgrade’ is a Betrayal to Its Most Loyal Users The Thinking Home is an intelligent environment built on a foundation of reliability, privacy, and user control to serve […]
Protecting Your Smart Home from Itself
A Foundational Home Assistant Automation Welcome to another post in my series on the foundational configurations and my second post on managing your cover entities. A truly smart home doesn’t […]
Weighted Confidence for Complex States
A Foundational Home Assistant Sensor Welcome to the next post in my series on the foundational configurations that form the bedrock of my Thinking Home. We’ve explored automations that react […]
The Gatekeeper
A Smarter Way to Control Your Covers Welcome back to my series on the foundational configurations that form the bedrock of my Thinking Home. So far, we’ve focused on creating […]
One Script to Notify Them All
A Foundational Home Assistant Script Welcome back to my series on the foundational configurations that form the bedrock of my Thinking Home. In the last post, we tamed the chaos […]
There Can Be Only One
A Tale of Two Switches Welcome back to my series on the foundational configurations that form the bedrock of my Thinking Home. We have tackled complex issues like network reboots […]
Taming the Reboot
A Foundational Home Assistant Automation Welcome to the first post in a new series where I will share the foundational configurations that form the bedrock of my Thinking Home. These […]
The Thinking Home Gets a Brain
Your Guide to Private AI Home Automation From Model Selection to Hardware, Your Blueprint for Private AI in the Home The philosophy of The Thinking Home is built on the […]
Bricked by Design
Your Echelon Fit Smart Bike No Longer Belongs to You: A Crisis of Ownership It’s a story that has become painfully familiar in the world of smart devices. A company […]