Rob went from 15 Apps to One Smart Home With Home Assistant
Summary
A guest from Auckland, New Zealand, shares his journey from managing 15 separate smart home apps to building a unified Home Assistant ecosystem. He details migrating from Home Assistant Green to a custom server setup to handle 170+ devices and optimize his solar and battery systems. The discussion highlights his heavy use of AI tools like Claude and Codex within VS Code to automate YAML configuration, document automation intent, and manage complex logic. He also covers the practical challenges of integrating proprietary hardware, the importance of robust Wi-Fi infrastructure, and the "wife …
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