Category: Build Logs

  • Wiring the hallway motion lights — what actually worked

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    Motion lighting sounds trivial until you live with a bad version of it. This is the full play-by-play: the three sensors I tested, the breaker that fought back, and the automation logic that finally made it invisible.

  • Mapping the house, room by room

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    Every automation journey starts with a map. Before buying a single sensor, I walked the house room by room and wrote down what each space actually needs — not what looks cool in a demo.

    The order: hallway first (cheap win, daily annoyance), then living room, kitchen, office, and finally the garden and gate.