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I recently upgraded to SmartWings smart roller blinds and have been thoroughly impressed with their performance. These blinds come in a variety of styles and support multiple smart home protocols, including Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Matter. However, I encountered an interesting (and annoying) quirk when integrating them with Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT — the blinds reported as "closed" when they were actually open, and vice versa.

I run several Docker containers managed with Dockge on an LXC in Proxmox. Recently, I encountered an issue where my LXC became unresponsive, and new containers were unreachable. Even the LXC itself stopped responding to pings. After some investigation, I discovered that Docker was assigning an IP range that conflicted with my home network. This quick guide outlines how I resolved the issue.

I use Frigate for real-time object detection with a Google Coral Edge TPU and as my Network Video Recorder (NVR) However, storing just a week's worth of footage from my cameras requires about 2TB of space of space on my NAS. While a NAS offers an economical storage option, accessing footage stored on HDDs over a network introduces latency. This lag noticeably impacts the performance of Frigate's UI, especially when playing back recent clips. The ideal setup would store recent footage on an SSD for quick access, while using a HDD NAS for older recordings. However, Frigate's limitation of supporting only a single mount point means this has to be solved outside of Frigate.

In addition to defining MQTT-based sensors to make them entities in Home Assistant, you can also group a bunch of sensors as a device.

In addition to defining MQTT-based sensors to make them entities in Home Assistant, you can also group a bunch of sensors as a device.