Lab notes
Too useful to forget. Too small for a grand reveal.
Short observations from systems that are running, changing or waiting for me to work out what they are doing.
running
Making Home Assistant failures visible
Monitoring unavailable devices, stale state, low batteries and automation behaviour so “smart” systems fail loudly enough to fix.
running
Small automations that quietly earn their keep
A rolling collection of lighting, heating, energy, reminders and environmental automations that are too small for grand architecture diagrams.
building
Moving Zigbee coordination onto the network
Rolling out a PoE-connected Zigbee coordinator to improve placement, resilience and the separation between radio coverage and compute.