Podcast
What my smart home got done while I was away
It has been quiet here for three months. First a holiday, then other things got in the way. My smart home kept working during that time. That is exactly what…
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Inspirations
The Self-Healing Smart Home: How AI Keeps My House Running (So I Don’t Have To)
Here's the dirty secret nobody selling you smart home stuff will admit: a smart home slowly falls apart. Not in a dramatic way. Quietly. A battery dies in a door…
Inspirations
How I taught my garage camera to remember bin day
Update, September 2026. I rebuilt this twice since publishing. The calibrated bounding boxes in Step 2 are no longer what runs in my garage — they failed in a way…
Inspirations
AI Is a Magic Box: How Two Smart-Home Builders Actually Use It
Lukas (hobbyblogging.de) and I have known each other for a while. Two builders, two smart homes, two evenings spent under similar AI rabbit holes. So when we sat down to…
Inspirations
Which Automations Make Our Home Really Smart
In this episode, I sit down with Lukas from hobbyblogging to talk about the smart-home automations we personally rely on every single day. We walk through the routines that quietly…
Tutorials
Sleep Mode with AI – Smarter Than Any Rule in Home Assistant
In this video, I show you how to manage the sleep mode in your smart home without relying on rigid or overly complicated rule sets. Traditional automations often break as…
Inspirations
I Tried Scheduling My Haircut With AI – Here’s How It Went
In this video I explore how an AI scheduling assistant can completely streamline your daily life. Instead of making calls yourself, the AI contacts people and businesses on your behalf…