A UK home-automation writer documents a self-built Python heating planner, solar and battery ROI tracking, and motorbike trip write-ups, with measured data behind each design choice. The issues show concrete numbers, honest caveats about weak fits and attribution, and notes on working with Claude Code.
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A sysadmin-focused newsletter by a hands-on practitioner covering firewall configuration, smart home automation and infrastructure tooling, with step-by-step write-ups of real home-lab problems. Readers get concrete technical solutions such as OPNsense wildcard aliases, migrating Eufy cameras to a new integration stack, and controlling a battery with Home Assistant.
A practical home-improvement newsletter covering electrification, home energy, automation and appliance swaps such as induction stoves and heat pump water heaters. Readers get first-person accounts, hands-on reasoning about costs and tradeoffs, and personal tests of home systems.
A personal blog by a self-hoster documenting practical home automation and server setups, including Home Assistant stale-sensor alerts, enabling ActivityPub in Ghost, and configuring a TURN server with TLS for Matrix Synapse. Each post gives concrete configs and troubleshooting steps drawn from the author's own experience.
Hands-on home automation tutorials centered on Home Assistant, covering local control of devices, self-hosted notifications and AI integration. Each issue pairs a written walkthrough with a video and explains the author's own setup choices.
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