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 […]