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Upgrading the RTTTL play_buzzer action
Someone asked why the Apollo MTR-1 didn't have a nice RTTTL action like SMLIGHT's coordinators. It had the action all along, but the form for it in Home Assistant was a blank box, because the ESPHome API can't send a description. Two days later there are six PRs across three repos and the buzzer plays melodies from prefilled fields.
Improving the sen6x component in ESPHome
I redid a stalled ESPHome PR as six smaller ones, ran three rounds of adversarial review agents over the code, and then flashed it onto real hardware anyway. The hardware found two bugs the reviews never would have. Also my sensor was unpowered for half an hour and I blamed everything except the actual cause.
What I learned letting Claude edit a YouTube Short
I wanted a 37 second video of my doorbell playing the Pink Panther theme, and I didn't want to edit it. So I had Claude cut the whole thing in ffmpeg. It got there, eventually, after being confidently wrong about the same problem four times in a row and me refusing to accept it.
How a non-coder uses Claude Code
I'm not a developer, but I use Claude Code every day for firmware, docs, and Home Assistant. The trick is writing down how I work so I stop re-explaining it. I just made my whole setup public: the skills and the memory pattern, cleaned of anything private, free on GitHub.