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01 Aug 31, 2026 14 min read

Morning Routines in Home Assistant: Back to School and Work Without the Chaos

Wake-up light, an event-driven morning sequence, per-person routines and a single leaving automation - taking the chaos out of school-year mornings.

smart-home home-assistant
Grzegorz Holak
02 Aug 28, 2026 16 min read

A Home Ready for Autumn: Heating Schedules in Home Assistant Before It Gets Cold

Heating schedules in Home Assistant: an inventory of what you control, zones with TRVs, presence-based setbacks, sensor calibration and a September dry run before the season.

smart-home home-assistant
Grzegorz Holak
03 Aug 27, 2026 15 min read

MCP Security: What Can Go Wrong With Third-Party Servers and How to Audit Them

An MCP server is third-party code running with your permissions and content flowing straight into model context. Risk classes, an audit checklist, and a team process.

ai mcp
Grzegorz Holak
04 Aug 26, 2026 14 min read

An Agent in Exploratory Testing: a Partner, Not a Replacement

Charters before the session, a second observer via Playwright MCP during it, solo exploration after hours - what an agent really adds to exploratory testing and where it fails.

ai qa
Grzegorz Holak
05 Aug 24, 2026 18 min read

Smart Home Without the Cloud: Free Your Tuya and Xiaomi Devices From Vendor Servers

How to cut Tuya and Xiaomi devices off vendor clouds: local control in Home Assistant, your own Zigbee coordinator, miio tokens and a phased migration plan.

smart-home home-assistant
Grzegorz Holak
06 Aug 21, 2026 19 min read

Backup Power for Your Smart Home: UPS, Power and Internet Outages - What Survives

What fails in a smart home when the power goes out, sizing a UPS for the real load, NUT integration with Home Assistant, LTE failover and a resilience test - with yaml.

smart-home home-assistant
Grzegorz Holak