The log blamed the database. The guilty party was a 30-euro SSD.
Dozens of recorder errors, a dead UI, a Raspberry Pi 5 in another country. The decisive evidence was not in the log, it was at the point where the log stopped.
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Posts on HA depth
Collected posts on HA depth — from our practice running fleets of Home Assistant instances.
Practice · Guide
Explainer · Tech
Home Assistant master/slave vs. a central platform: which fits when?
Home Assistant master/slave merges nodes into one home; a central platform keeps client houses apart. Which route fits when, with a clear decision guide.
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Practice · Guide
Make Home Assistant more reliable: get the switching logic out of the server
Make Home Assistant more reliable by wiring basic switching directly between devices: ESPHome on-chip automations, Zigbee binding, Z-Wave. HA stays the brain.
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Fiction · Story
Thursday, 14:32 — the Z2M cascade nobody was meant to hear
A fictional shift in the life of a solo integrator: three Z2M crashes after a silent add-on update, and the forty minutes between the first symptom and a quiet fix.
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