https://thepotato.tech/tags/home-assistant/Recent content in Home Assistant on Neil HanlonHugoen-USSat, 11 Jul 2026 00:45:00 -0400https://thepotato.tech/posts/i-put-my-son-in-a-swamp/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:45:00 -0400https://thepotato.tech/posts/i-put-my-son-in-a-swamp/<p>My son is a typed resource now. He has a <code>sync</code> method that pulls the last seven days of his life into a versioned snapshot, a stack of reports that summarize how he slept and ate, and — I did think about this — a delete that&rsquo;s careful to be idempotent, because deleting the same diaper twice shouldn&rsquo;t be an error.</p> <p>I did not set out to put a baby in a swamp. It followed, the way these things do, from having already put everything else in one.</p>https://thepotato.tech/posts/smarthome-soldering-iron-pinecil-homeassistant-esphome/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:01:25 -0400https://thepotato.tech/posts/smarthome-soldering-iron-pinecil-homeassistant-esphome/<p>About a year ago, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@wesdottoday">wesdottoday</a> told me to buy a Pinecil and, once they came back in stock before the holidays.. I did just that&hellip; Fast forward a couple months and I&rsquo;ve got a <a href="https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neil/blisp/">copr</a> for flashing the Pinecil&rsquo;s firmware (IronOS), and am spending my weekends playing around with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Home Assistant to automatically turn on my fan when I start tinkering at my desk, lest my lungs die from the fumes.</p>