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Why the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) is a Must-Have for Every HA User
In this story, we’ll explore HACS (Home Assistant Community Store), why it’s a game-changer, and how to get started with it.
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KNX Motion-Sensor Automations in Home Assistant
Making KNX motion sensors drive lights that feel like the room is paying attention — the real trick is one extra group address, not a cleverer trigger.
Decoupling a KNX Alarm from the JUNG Panel in Home Assistant
I didn't want Home Assistant to be a slave to the JUNG alarm panel. So I inverted ownership: HA owns the alarm state and pushes it back onto the KNX bus.
The Best HACS Integrations for Home Assistant (My Must-Haves)
The HACS integrations I actually run in Home Assistant – Huawei Solar, Tapo cameras, button-card and more – plus the community must-haves worth knowing.
Solar Surplus into Hot Water: the AC·THOR in Home Assistant
I wired an AC·THOR 9s into Home Assistant to dump PV surplus into the hot-water tank — then the device refused every Modbus write. Here's the read-local, write-cloud fix.
Self-Consumption & Autarky: PV Metrics in Home Assistant
My inverter cloud shows self-consumption and autarky as pretty graphs. Home Assistant gives you raw counters. Here's how I rebuilt those numbers as template sensors I own.
How to Install HACS in Home Assistant – Step by Step
Install HACS in Home Assistant step by step: the Get HACS add-on (HAOS), the one-line installer (Container/Core), GitHub authorization, and common fixes.
Caching a Huawei SUN2000 over Modbus for Home Assistant
My Huawei SDongle accepts exactly one Modbus connection — but Home Assistant, the AC·THOR and evcc all want the inverter's data. Here's the ~300-line asyncio cache server I wrote to feed all of them from a single quiet poll.
Replacing Algolia with an In-Memory Search in Next.js 14
Why I deleted Algolia, the sync route and four env vars — and replaced our on-site search with a dependency-free token scan over the ~8 MB store we already hold in memory.
Next.js 14 — Sync Neon.Tech Postgres DB with Azure AI Search
In the fast-evolving world, connecting and synchronizing data across various platforms is key. This article will guide you through connecting a Neon.Tech Postgres database to Azure AI Search
Next.js 14 — Building a SaaS Solution — Loading products from Stripe
In the previous five stories, I showed the step-by-step creation of a Next.js 14 app that can be used to create Azure Resources via App Service. Now, we added the payment option with Stripe.