Lighting & scenes
Lights that follow your day: gentle sunrise wake-ups, a movie mode, and a one-touch “goodnight” that shuts the whole house down.
Home Assistant Hippie
Smart Homes, Happier Living
I’m a tech nerd with a hippie heart. I love smart homes, automation, networking and DIY projects, and I share what I learn building a home that actually works for the people in it. Come along for the ride.
What’s possible with Home Assistant
Home Assistant is a free, open smart-home platform that runs right in your home and ties all your devices together, so it keeps working even when the internet doesn’t. Here are a few things it can do.
Cameras & security
One clean view of every camera, motion alerts that tell people from shadows, and door and window sensors. Recordings can stay in your home.
Comfort & climate
Heating, cooling, fans and shades that react to the weather, the sun and who is actually home.
Energy & solar
See what your house uses, track solar and EV charging, and run the big loads when power is cheapest.
Leak & safety alerts
Water, smoke and freezer alerts sent to your phone before a small problem becomes an expensive one.
Doors, locks & garage
Know it’s closed, close it from anywhere, and let arriving and leaving trigger the right things automatically.
Irrigation & outdoors
Water by the forecast instead of a dumb timer. Landscape, patio and pool lighting on smart schedules.
Away & vacation mode
Make the house look lived in, get alerts when something is off, and check in without worrying.
Dashboards
One simple screen for the whole house on a wall tablet, a phone, or both, designed so everyone in the family can use it.
Local voice control
Talk to your house without sending every word to the cloud.
Network & IoT security
Solid Wi-Fi, a separate network for smart devices, and remote access done safely.
Rescue & clean-up
Drowning in apps, hubs and half-working automations? Let’s fold it all into one reliable system.
Latest videos
Projects, experiments and lessons learned. New ones are on the way.
Work with me
I’m just getting started helping people turn their homes into smart homes the easy way. If any of this sounds like you, tell me what you’re trying to do and I’ll write back:
- You want a smart home that’s reliable, private and simple for the whole family
- You have cameras, lights or devices you want working together
- Your Wi-Fi and smart gadgets need to be sorted out and made secure
- You started with Home Assistant and got stuck
More details, packages and examples are coming soon.
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