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A closed hallway door, wall sensor and glowing floor lamp beside a small home-server appliance on a wooden bench.EXPLAINER
Smart Home

What Should Happen When a Smart-Home Routine Fires Twice?

Home Assistant can ignore, replace, queue, or overlap a running automation. Choose by the consequence of the second event, not by apparent speed.

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A small sensor and plant sit on a window ledge above a radiator, with closed notebooks stacked on a nearby bench.EXPLAINER
Smart Home

Decide Which Home Assistant History Is Worth Keeping

Detailed events and long-term sensor summaries answer different questions. Choose Home Assistant retention around the evidence you actually need.

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An unlabelled home-server cabinet and access device in a dark domestic hallway, with violet status lights near a closed door.SECURITY
Smart Home

Secure a Home Assistant Dashboard with Cloudflare Tunnel and Access

Publish one browser-based Home Assistant dashboard through Cloudflare Tunnel, then require an Access policy before the local login.

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An ESPHome Bluetooth proxy on a home-server shelf near a plant and compact server hardware, with restrained violet radio waves.TUTORIAL
Smart Home

Extend Home Assistant Bluetooth Coverage with an ESPHome Proxy

Place one ESPHome Bluetooth proxy near distant BLE devices, prove its route in Home Assistant, and keep a safe local-adapter fallback.

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A home floor plan links a controller, border router, network backbone, and low-power Thread devices.TUTORIAL
Smart Home

Build a Reliable Matter-over-Thread Network in Home Assistant

Create one preferred Thread network, commission Matter devices correctly, test isolation failures, and keep a safe recovery path.

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