Home Assistant
My "Home" Dashboard
A tour of the mobile-first dashboard I actually use every day: what it's built on, what each tab shows, and the quick actions that save the most taps.
Home Battery Simulator
Six parallel Home Assistant battery simulations against real smart-meter data: seeing money saved per capacity before buying any hardware.
AI-Built Dashboards
How an AI assistant edits my Home Assistant config over YAML (file-first, not the UI) and three real failures that taught me to check its work.
Joulo API: ERE Earnings
Got an MID-certified EV charger in Joulo's ERE scheme? Here's the API, the fields that actually matter, and how to pull them into Home Assistant.
Wake-on-LAN from Home Assistant
Home Assistant's Synology integration has no wake button. It only manages the NAS once it's on. Here's the WoL setup, and what silently breaks it.
USB Passthrough After VM Reboot
Synology Virtual Machine Manager doesn't re-attach a passed-through USB device after a VM reboot. Here's why, plus a self-healing script: ConBee II example.