My first blog post - better late than never!
Welcome to smarthomesellout.com. This is the first post on this site, mostly here so the blog has something in it the day it launches.
This is the public hub for smarthomesellout, the handle I use across YouTube, GitHub, and Discord. One place that points at whatever I’m working on: write-ups, the free Home Assistant class, the gear I actually run at home, and whatever’s moving on my GitHub that week.
More posts as I have things worth writing about. Smart home stuff first; everything else after that.
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My New Bambu H2S Had Unhealthy Defaults
The first night I ran my new H2S, the printer room PM2.5 climbed into the EPA's Unhealthy range and stayed there for seven hours. The printer's carbon and HEPA filter was there the whole time, it just wasn't in the air path for PETG. Here's how Home Assistant caught it, the firmware setting that routes the exhaust through the filter, and how I got Home Assistant to tell me when it's on.
My beginner Home Assistant class is up on YouTube
I taught my free Intro to Home Assistant class at the Dallas Makerspace on September 12, and the full recording is on YouTube now. The morning of the class I cut the live demo and taught it with the hardware in my hands instead. The outline, handout, and print files are free to reuse.
Debloating My NVIDIA Shields Freed Up RAM and Got the Ads Off the Home Screen
Four Shields across three hardware generations, 148 system packages disabled, every one reversible. The stock launcher was the largest process on all four, and replacing it cut that between 61% and 80%. Getting to that number took three wrong measurements first. The other win came from somewhere I wasn't looking: a TV tuner running 2016 firmware.