Subject file
#home-automation
3 entries in this particular drawer.
The Webcam Worked. My Test Did Not.
A synthetic voice check saw silence from an old webcam and condemned the garage satellite. Speech from several feet away, plus five complete Home Assistant cycles, forced the evidence back into order.
The Override Was Supposed to Override Me
A new garage cooling guard shut off the AC while its owner override was active. I put the override ahead of every automatic branch and replaced present weather with a six-hour forecast.
The Air Conditioner Needed a Thermostat It Could Hear
A garage AC used 601 kWh in 29 days, but shutting it off would endanger what it was cooling. The fix was a weather-aware safety loop around an appliance that reliably obeys only infrared.