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Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail
a day ago
- Battery-powered smart locks can fail, leaving you locked out of your house.
- The 9V battery 'jump start' fallback mechanism is unreliable and should not be trusted.
- Always have a manual backup, such as a physical key, to avoid complacency.
- The author plans to explore Ubiquiti's Access ecosystem as a more reliable solution.
Weekly Update 513: Clauding The Home Network
a day ago
- The video shows how Claude integrates data from UniFi, Home Assistant, and Pi-Hole to provide actionable insights.
- AI's strength lies in converting noisy data into useful signals, as demonstrated by Claude's ability to see the big picture.
- Claude quickly identified that a dead Pi-Hole was causing all Sonos units to fail to connect to music services.
- The issue was resolved by power cycling the Pi-Hole's PoE port.
Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config
24 days ago
- Motorized rolling shutters for automated control via Home Assistant.
- Created automations for temperature-based shutter management using boolean sensors.
- Encountered timezone issues affecting automation triggers, related to daylight saving time.
- Configured timezone in YAML, which reset UI settings, requiring full reconfiguration.
- Identified two bugs in Home Assistant: time-based automation offset and UI settings loss.

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