Tag: google-home
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I Was Wrong About Home Assistant
I always thought of Home Assistant as the red-headed stepchild of Google Home, with no real basis for it. I'd had it installed for ages and used it for small jobs Google couldn't do. Then I started asking more of it, and spent a day with Claude Code building a phone-first dashboard of bronze knobs, a dot-matrix display and push buttons. Here is why, what it looks like, and what went wrong on the way.
Who Owns the State? Putting My IR Fans Behind Home Assistant Matter Hub
My ceiling fans, their lights, the bedroom TV and the aircon are all controlled by infrared, so none of them can say what state they're in. I had them in Google Home through the Broadlink app and in Home Assistant directly, and the two kept disagreeing. Here is how I made Home Assistant the only owner of that state and gave Google Home a Matter bridge to talk to it. Voice control now picks the right room's light without being told which.