Apr 7 路 5 min read 路 I've always been jealous of the makers, the tinkerers, the electronics people. There's just something about building things you can physically touch I've wanted to learn for years but every time I tri
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Mar 29 路 8 min read 路 In my last post I introduced five principles I consider non-negotiable for a well-run smart home. Today I'm going deep on principle 02: Security. Most home network security advice stops at "use a stro
Join discussionFeb 25 路 13 min read 路 When Hitachi replaced its older Hi-Kumo system with the ATW-IOT-01 module, it broke every existing Home Assistant integration for their heat pumps. The new system routes everything through a cloud ser
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Jan 22 路 5 min read 路 In my last entry, I noted that the general framework of this project is pretty much complete, and that鈥檚 true! Especially for the agent components, where I鈥檝e built a collection of task-specific agents, plus an Orchestrator Agent capable of delegatin...
Join discussionJan 20 路 5 min read 路 Now that my Gmail agent works, it鈥檚 time to add more fun agents! A few I have in mind to start with include: A ski-report generator A documentation assistant (for reminders, grocery lists, etc) A health coach that can advise on how to how to meet ...
Join discussionJan 8 路 6 min read 路 There are many, many things I鈥檇 like a personal home assistant to be able to do. Schedule my doctors appointment, pay my bills, write my grocery list. Hopefully I鈥檒l get to all of that eventually, but keeping an eye on my personal inbox, dodging spam...
Join discussionJan 7 路 5 min read 路 Allow me to start this article by borrowing from Lemony Snicket鈥檚 introduction to A Series of Unfortunate Events: 鈥淚f you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other [article]. In this [article], not only ...
Join discussionJan 3 路 4 min read 路 馃摑 Quick Summary: This repository provides the official Home Assistant client application for Apple platforms, allowing users to control and monitor their smart home devices from their iPhones, iPads, and Macs. It offers a native experience for manag...
Join discussionDec 19, 2025 路 5 min read 路 As I mentioned in my last article, this blog will mostly be documenting the projects I work on. A couple years back, I built a homemade plant-watering system to wrap my head around AWS based IoT development (unfortunately at the time I didn鈥檛 have th...
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