--- 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 14 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/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 spec I checked on a mini-split 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." I built it and tested it the same day, during a real movie. Doing it properly took three layers, not one: block the start, send ... [![](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 color scenes stored on the Philips Hue hub and onto an engine I built in Home Assistant. It has 46 looks and fades every bulb on its own. The lights took one ... [![](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. Lights go warm, then down to a nightlight glow, and that is exactly what you don't want at a party. The obvious fix is to switch off the evening scene. There was no such scene to ... [![](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. The automation that ... [![](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) Over three days in September 2026 I hit three small problems with the Home Assistant app on my iPhone, and each one looked like a bug. A progress notification buzzed my phone and my watch on every update. A notification ... [![](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. The post ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/delegating-the-contractors-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=delegating-the-contractors-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/delegating-the-contractors) Home Aug 28, 2026 · 8 min read ### [What Broke When I Delegated the Contractors](https://willcurran.com/blog/delegating-the-contractors) This summer I handed my assistant the contractors: finding them, getting quotes, booking visits, following up. It had a phone line and a texting number through Twilio, a task list in Todoist and access to our calendars. ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/half-a-light-curtain-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=half-a-light-curtain-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/half-a-light-curtain) Home Aug 22, 2026 · 6 min read ### [Half a Light Curtain Said “Success” and Did Nothing](https://willcurran.com/blog/half-a-light-curtain) For months, a smart LED light curtain in my house wouldn't reliably do what Home Assistant told it. In August 2026 I stopped patching it and took it apart, one hypothesis at a time. Settings, a power cycle and a new ... [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: 14 posts. 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