Subject
4 entries
Smart Home
Bookmarks
f.lux, but for your house — Whole-House Circadian Lighting
Tyler Cipriani's guide to implementing whole-house circadian lighting via Home Assistant — warm amber light in the evening, bright cool light in the day, all automated. f.lux for every bulb in your house.
Smart Home Components: A Systems Engineer's Setup
Michael Stapelberg's deep-dive into his home automation setup — a systems engineer's perspective on choosing components for a local-first, open smart home without cloud dependencies. Covers protocols, hubs, and the tradeoffs between ecosystems.
NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM
A tutorial on running Home Assistant as a headless VM on NixOS — covering NixOS configuration, declarative VM setup, and integrating Home Assistant into a reproducible infrastructure-as-code home lab. Good example of the NixOS approach applied to home automation.
My Smart Home 2021
A detailed writeup of a production Home Assistant smart home setup in 2021 — covering hardware choices, integrations, automations, and lessons learned. A useful reference for anyone building a serious self-hosted home automation system.