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Why didn’t my automation run?

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It’s a common post on the HA Discord where people are confused as to why their automation isn’t running, they’ve got a trigger, and a few conditions, and … n...

Zigbee2MQTT - Native to Docker migration

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 A long time ago I started using Zigbee2MQTT - somewhere around 1.2 or 1.3. Back then I thought that it was easiest to run Zigbee2MQTT with a manual install,...

Presence Detection Resurrection

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Yes, another update. Until I start using Blueprints I think this’ll be the last one for a while. Probably. Oh, you may want to grab a cuppa before you dive ...

HA venv to Docker

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Another year, another Python deprecation, another flood of posts asking how to upgrade a Python venv. 

Home Assistant, Docker, and using SSH

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A common problem that comes up with people using one of the Supervisor based install methods, or Docker, is that when they try to use ssh it fails, yet when ...