I used Claude to vibe-code my wildly overcomplicated smart home Home On.

"since I unleashed Claude in my smart home via Home Assistant, I can finally see a future where everything just works, and I want that future now"

Very interesting and insightful! I will feature it in this week's issue of The Smart Home Newsletter 🙌

Congratulations, you passed level 1! Now make it dependent on your location, so you need only one tile 😋

My xiaomi plant sensor does! (HHCCJCY01)

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Fair take on the UI. That said, a well-set-up smart home barely needs the UI day-to-day.
If the frustration is with assistant responses: LLM integration helps a lot. If that’s already in place… yeah, something’s wrong 🙂

Yeah that’s totally fine. I meant custom components like card-mod or browser-mod. Those tend to break with updates. Button card is very flexible but will cost a lot of time to get right.

Warning: that rabbit hole is DEEP. 😅

Stick with default cards. They’re solid now and you won’t have to rebuild your dashboard every time a custom component breaks or css changes. (Now if only tile cards supported templates like mushroom does… 😫)

Having watched enough of these projects unfold: this escalated exactly as expected 😅

Sure, should I rename my newsletter to the Haunted Home Newsletter as well? 😋

And yes, mqtt is a simple protocol but can still be tricky... Good detective skills!

To be fair, rebooting is the first thing you try with anything Windows-related 😋

What a coincidence! All I can tell you is that I own an old Roborock which I really appreciate. It's cloud-dependent though..

But I have the voice PE, and when that one starts pronouncing markdown... 😅

Bloody annoying when your smart home assistant starts talking in Markdown…

Nice! I hope this was for the video and you can hide the device on the other side of the curtain? Which brand is it?

But now you're looking for a new vacuum 😊

You should look into the valetudo project, though it requires rooting your vacuum: valetudo.cloud

Nine staff members, including six judges and the ICC's chief prosecutor, have been sanctioned by U.S. President Donald Trump for pursuing investigations into officials from the U.S. and Israel, which aren't among The Hague court's 125 member states. Typically reserved for autocrats, crime bosses and the like, the sanctions can be devastating. They prevent the ICC officials and their families from entering the United States, block their access to even basic financial services and extend to the minutiae of their everyday lives. The court's top prosecutor, British national Karim Khan, had his bank accounts closed and his U.S. visa revoked, and Microsoft even canceled his ICC email address. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was named in the latest round of sanctions in August, immediately lost access to her credit cards, and Amazon's Alexa stopped responding to her. "Your whole world is restricted," Prost told The Associated Press last week.

Lmao, the ICC judges illegally sanctioned by the US had their bank account frozen, emails closed and.... "Their amazon alexa stop responding to them".

The most bizarre smart home gadget I've tested this year had my dog jumping up and down Busy dog owners, rejoice. This smart door makes for easy transport.

This one:
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Didn’t expect pet appliances to be this progressive already — Matter included.
Came across something very much in this category while curating my Smart Home Newsletter last week 👀

Oh nice, thought I was an oldtimer starting somewhere in the 0.twenties versions!

That's their website. Maybe documentation?

Did the Home Assistant or the Minisforum piss you of? I have the Venus UM480 and am very satisfied!

Put an LLM in the voice pipeline and you can even tweak the level of 'pedanticness'!

You only missed like 24+ releases 😉

In my new smart home feed, I focus on - but don’t limit to - community posts about:

Home Assistant · HomeKit · SmartThings · Google Home · Matter · Zigbee · Philips Hue · Alexa · and more

Still tuning, so let me know when you see something that shouldn't be there!

Out of frustration of scrolling through spam in home automation feeds (😤🤬),
I decided to build my own! The one i wish existed.

✅ Only quality posts about Smart Home & Home Automation
🚫 No spam. No deals. 📚 English only

Check it out 👉 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Haha, not only that, it comes with its own OS!!

Theoretically you could start redesigning any time, of course 😊 But yes, moving houses is a nice opportunity. Tip: Take advantage of HA's new naming conventions!

This Week's Essential Smart Home Reading #10 Gemini for Home's expansion to third-party speakers means millions can now enjoy enhanced voice control and AI features, transforming how you interact with your smart devices.

Yesterday, I published issue #10 of my curated smart home newsletter already!

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