Useful by default
Room controls, bedside buttons, lighting scenes, fan and climate routines, path lighting, and family-friendly automations work without requiring everyone to learn a dashboard.
04 · Home automation
A home that can explain itself.
My house is a practical Home Assistant lab: everyday controls stay simple for the family, while the systems underneath bring together lighting, climate, access, cameras, audio, networking, and a busy maker space.
Home Assistant
Node-RED
Omada networking
Cameras & sensors
Voice & physical controls
Visible when needed
Purpose-built views bring cameras, network health, device state, and shop operations into one place. The system is observable enough to troubleshoot without becoming the center of the room.
Built for the whole property
An Omada network spans indoor and outdoor spaces, while sensors and automations support the house, yard, access points, climate zones, and workshop environment as one connected system.
Featured experiment · Project Aria
The smart home becomes the escape room.
Project Aria is a story-driven home escape room orchestrated through Home Assistant and Node-RED. Players are invited in by ARIA, a rogue house AI, then move through a sequence of physical and conversational puzzles that use the real environment as the game board. Lights, speakers, sensors, screens, and controlled access become narrative tools, while a safety-first state machine keeps puzzle logic testable and gives the operator a reset, simulation mode, logs, and an emergency stop.