Tag: Home Automation

Building the Home Assistant Docker Stack: MariaDB, Z-Wave JS UI, and the One USB Path That Survives a Reboot

The Z-Wave USB stick is invisible inside the container. Every setup guide tells you to add a devices: entry to your compose file and pass the path /dev/ttyUSB0. On first boot it works. After a reboot, the path has rotated to /dev/ttyACM0, or shifted to /dev/ttyUSB1 because

Getting Home Assistant Off Your Local Network: Remote Access Decisions That Actually Matter

The Docker stack is running. Z-Wave devices are responding. MariaDB is handling the recorder. The local experience is solid. Then someone asks whether they can control the lights from their phone when they're away from home, and the comfortable self-contained feeling of the stack immediately collides with the

When Home Automation Becomes Infrastructure

There's a moment in most home automation projects when the framing shifts. It doesn't announce itself. One day you're automating a light, the next you're thinking about database backend selection, container isolation boundaries, and whether your remote access method is actually secure