--- title: Writing — Will Curran | Home description: "Home | Notes on the technology I actually use: the truck, the radios, the home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice." image: https://willcurran.com/hubfs/will-curran-brand/will-curran-og.png --- [Skip to content](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home#main) [Will Curran](https://willcurran.com/) [Home](https://willcurran.com/) [Portfolio](https://willcurran.com/portfolio) [Press](https://willcurran.com/media) [Blog](https://willcurran.com/blog) [Favorites](https://willcurran.com/favorites) [Speaking](https://willcurran.com/speaking) [Consulting](https://willcurran.com/consult) [Hire Will](https://willcurran.com/hire) [All](https://willcurran.com/blog) [Builds](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/builds) [Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/events) [Home](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home) [Music](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music) Search the blog [Subscribe](https://willcurran.com/blog/subscribe) [Writing](https://willcurran.com/blog) / Home # Home 16 posts filed under Home. [Builds](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/builds) [Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/events) [Home](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home) [Music](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music) [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/blinds-calculate-the-sun-featured.png?width=800&height=500&name=blinds-calculate-the-sun-featured.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/blinds-calculate-the-sun) Home Oct 28, 2026 · 8 min read ### [My Blinds' Light Sensors Were Lying for Months. So the House Calculates the Sun Instead.](https://willcurran.com/blog/blinds-calculate-the-sun) The light sensors in my blinds read 1 or 2 on sunny and stormy days alike because the window header shaded them, so my house now calculates the sunlight on each window from a weather station and the sun's position. I ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/my-doorbell-asks-who-owns-the-music-featured.png?width=800&height=500&name=my-doorbell-asks-who-owns-the-music-featured.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/my-doorbell-asks-who-owns-the-music) Home Oct 24, 2026 · 5 min read ### [My Doorbell Can't Interrupt Spotify, So It Asks Who Owns the Music](https://willcurran.com/blog/my-doorbell-asks-who-owns-the-music) My amps' built-in chime stopped Spotify and line inputs for good, so on every ring each room was sorted by who owned the stream. Music Assistant streams resumed, live inputs cut and switched back in about 7 seconds, and ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/desert-garage-mini-split-heat-rating-featured.png?width=800&height=500&name=desert-garage-mini-split-heat-rating-featured.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/desert-garage-mini-split-heat-rating) Home Oct 22, 2026 · 4 min read ### [The Heat Rating That Decides a Desert Garage Mini-Split](https://willcurran.com/blog/desert-garage-mini-split-heat-rating) For a garage that hit about 119°F, the first mini-split spec I checked was the hottest outdoor temperature it is rated to cool at, and two well-known units I checked stop at 115°F. A 129°F figure from my research ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/movie-mode-vacuum-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=movie-mode-vacuum-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/movie-mode-vacuum) Home Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min read ### [Movie Mode Means the Robot Vacuum Waits](https://willcurran.com/blog/movie-mode-vacuum) The request was one sentence: "when movie mode is enabled, the robot vacuum must not run." Doing it right took three layers: block the start, send the robot home if it is running, and replay whatever got skipped after ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/holiday-color-engine-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=holiday-color-engine-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/holiday-color-engine) Home Oct 16, 2026 · 7 min read ### [A Holiday Color Engine with a Calendar Computed to 2099](https://willcurran.com/blog/holiday-color-engine) On October 16, 2026 I moved my front-yard lights off the Hue hub's stored scenes onto an engine I built in Home Assistant, with 46 looks. The lights took an evening. The calendar took the thinking: it knows when Diwali, ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/party-mode-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=party-mode-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/party-mode) Home Sep 30, 2026 · 6 min read ### [Party Mode: 49 Ramps Blocked, Zero During a Six-Hour Party](https://willcurran.com/blog/party-mode) My house dims itself in the evening, which is exactly what you don't want at a party. There was no evening scene to switch off: the wind-down lived in motion automations, so Party Mode had to block all 49. Over a party ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/the-veto-that-never-retries-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=the-veto-that-never-retries-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/the-veto-that-never-retries) Home Sep 18, 2026 · 7 min read ### [The Veto That Never Retries](https://willcurran.com/blog/the-veto-that-never-retries) In September a bathroom in my house stayed lit for nearly nine hours because a humidity sensor read 51 when the rule wanted it under 50. Thirteen minutes later it read 48, and nothing happened: in Home Assistant, a ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light) Home Sep 17, 2026 · 5 min read ### [A Switch That Feeds Smart Bulbs Is Not a Light](https://willcurran.com/blog/a-switch-that-feeds-smart-bulbs-is-not-a-light) For four days in September 2026, a room-wide "lights off" automation in my Home Assistant setup cut the power to a set of smart bulbs 75 times. Every one of those runs reported success, and every time anyone looked, the ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source) Home Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min read ### [Three Answers I Found in the Home Assistant iOS App's Source](https://willcurran.com/blog/three-answers-in-the-ios-app-source) In September 2026 I hit three small problems with the Home Assistant app on my iPhone, each looking like a bug: a progress notification buzzing on every update, a tap that always sent me to Safari, an empty Focus filter ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/recorder-database-bloat-featured.png?width=800&height=500&name=recorder-database-bloat-featured.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/recorder-database-bloat) Home Sep 5, 2026 · 5 min read ### [20.9 GiB in 14 Days: One Integration Wrote 57% of the Rows](https://willcurran.com/blog/recorder-database-bloat) My Home Assistant history database held only 14 days and still reached 20.9 GiB, and about 57% of its rows came from one network integration rewriting device records for clients with randomized addresses. I cover how to ... [1](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home/page/1) [2](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home/page/2) [Older →](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home/page/2) Show more posts That's everything: 16 posts. 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