Mastodawn

Struggling with balancing #smarthome reliability/predictability with your hobby and the fancy obscure features that brings? I've written down some cool #esphome #homeassistant solution i've figured out recently, but the article also contains a lot of pointers applicable to other hardware choices. For your entertainment and a fresh look at reasoning about smart lighting, go read my newest blog post! -> https://blog.netk.nl/2026/smart-lights/

Smart Lights: The proper way

How to combine fancy smart lights and reliability without compromise.

Michiel on Home Automation

Michiel Karnebeek Dec 15

Struggling with #homeassistant YAML? Ready to take your #smarthome configuration to the next level? I've written down my 8 years of experience with a fully automated home. Enjoy the read!

https://blog.netk.nl/2025/home-assistant-yaml

#homeautomation

Organizing way too much YAML and why

A deep-dive into my over-engineered Home Assistant YAML setup and what perks it gives me

Michiel on Home Automation

Michiel Karnebeek Jul 12, 2025

Grok from Twitter (yes, I still call it that). Gemini from Google, Claude from Anthropic, etc. It's as if everyone of your friends got pets suddenly and you're expected to remember all their names :p

Michiel Karnebeek Jul 6, 2025

I am still impressed with what proper AI can do. I was hitting my head against the wall trying to format data (printf-like stuff) in esphome lambda's, like the display components supports. And after spending a minute to properly prompt an AI, it understood #homeassistant, #esphome yaml syntax, and the C-context lambda's are in. It found the function i needed, and surrounded it with a setup and return. Even in niche situations it is now an invaluable tool. #domotica #homeautomation #ai

Michiel Karnebeek May 3, 2025

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Lee May 3, 2025

@maxleibman I have no corporate overlord controlling my digital devices. GrapheneOS, Linux, NextCloud, and HomeAssistant.

Always ask who controls the platform and work diligently to break or weaken their grip on you and your content.

#foss #GrapheneOS #NextCloud #HomeAssistant #Linux

Michiel Karnebeek May 2, 2025

In my effort to have everything in my #smarthome locally controlled with #homeassistant, I set out to replace my last cloud-controlled integration a while ago: my Daikin heat pump. Recently I wrote an article about it! This also allowed for optimizations and features not possible before. Have fun reading, and leave a comment if you liked it, helped you, or you have suggestions for improvements.

#homeautomation

https://blog.netk.nl/2025/daikin-altherma-3-local-control/

Local Control of the Daikin Altherma 3 Heat Pump

An exploration of controlling a Daikin Altherma 3 heat pump, covering interfaces and protocols to achieve cloud-independent home automation integration.

Michiel on Home Automation

Michiel Karnebeek May 2, 2025

Franck Nijhof Apr 22, 2025

I just opened a discussion on the Home Assistant forums seeking community feedback:

We’re proposing to deprecate the Core & Supervised installation methods and drop i386 & armhf architectures.

What do you think? Let me know 👇
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/feedback-requested-deprecating-core-supervised-i386-armhf/880968

#HomeAssistant
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/feedback-requested-deprecating-core-supervised-i386-armhf/880968

Feedback requested: Deprecating Core, Supervised, i386 & armhf

Oh hi there community! 👋 We’re always striving to improve Home Assistant, making it simpler, more robust, and easier to maintain, for you, us, and newcomers. As part of this ongoing effort, we’re proposing a few important changes regarding the officially supported installation methods and architectures. To keep everything transparent and to gather your valuable feedback, I’m starting this discussion here before we officially finalize these proposals. What’s the plan? We’re proposing to s...

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