Keep a Bond Ceiling Fan Reliable Behind a Lutron Switch
One-way RF control fails when an upstream wall switch removes power. Continuous power and a clear control boundary fix the architecture.
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News analysis, operating lessons, home automation, and guides grounded in systems I run or can inspect closely.
What Breaks When MCP Servers Move from stdio to HTTP
Shared HTTP transports expose identity, session, context-budget, health-check, and cleanup problems that local tool calls can hide.
Home Assistant Automations Should Fail Gracefully
Three failures from my house: an unpowered RF receiver, a WLED controller still booting, and an S2 vacuum that needed to complain when it got stuck.
Fix a Pi-hole Block Without Disabling Pi-hole
Identify the exact matching rule, change every resolver that can answer, clear caches, and allow only the domain the application actually needs.