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I’ll be giving a talk at North Dallas Developers on Building and maintaining a smart home on August 5, 2020 at 6 PM Central Standard Time.

Use NFC tags to trigger smart home automations with practical event-action patterns, safeguards, and tuning tips that reduce misfires and improve reliability.

This post is going to cover normalizing all media_player volume levels with Home Assistant and Node-RED. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend reading my previous blog post on sending Text-to-Speech…

Build practical Home Assistant and Node-RED text-to-speech notifications with reusable flows, intent cues, and speaker-routing options that improve alerts.

Explore practical smart home accessibility improvements for switches, lights, and automation interfaces so systems stay usable for everyone and every condition.