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Shelly in Home Assistant: Local Switching & Energy Metering
How I run Shelly Plus 1PM/2PM behind my wall switches in Home Assistant — fully local switching plus per-channel energy metering, no cloud, physical switch kept.
A Home Assistant Energy Dashboard, Built Piece by Piece
How I turned raw inverter registers into a real Home Assistant energy dashboard: reading, monitoring and acting on solar surplus, battery and switching.
Updating Home Assistant in Docker Safely: My Workflow With Backup, Test and Rollback
How I update a Docker-based Home Assistant to a new version without breaking my smart home: full backup, update custom components first against the old core, recreate the container instead of in-place, note the image ID for a real rollback, and a post-update checklist.
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.
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.