Your Smart Home Isn't Broken — Your Automations Are: 3 Root Causes and 4 Rules That Survive
Why smart home automations misfire: motion treated as presence, stacked latency, and nested automations — plus 4 rules and a delete-first checklist.
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Why smart home automations misfire: motion treated as presence, stacked latency, and nested automations — plus 4 rules and a delete-first checklist.
A ZoomEye fingerprint count of internet-visible Home Assistant installations, what the number does and does not mean, and the operational decisions that keep an automation control plane out of reach.

Hide ESP32-C3 IR Blaster: A maker hid an ESP32-C3 inside a walnut shell to beam IR commands at gear that never got a Wi-Fi upgrade. Here is how the GPIO wiring and parts list work.
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A Pittsburgh doctor was killed after an intruder reached the 3rd floor undetected. Here's the sensor architecture gap operators and builders should understand.

Raspberry Pi Official Annual: A year of Raspberry Pi projects in one book: home automation, a robot arm hack, Pi 500+ upgrades, and updated OS guides. Here's your weekend build plan.

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A practical architecture for reading local meter data, normalizing it once, and sending it to dashboards or cloud services without coupling every component to one device API.