Tinkering

Notes on side projects, home automation experiments, and things I figured out the hard way.

August 2026

Theming the Roborock map card in Home Assistant
How I patched the vacuum map parser library to match my dashboard's colour palette, and why there was no better way to do it.

July 2026

Making a dumb IR curtain light smart with a Zigbee IR blaster
How I used a Zigbee IR blaster and a handful of Home Assistant entities to give a stateless IR curtain light a proper place in my automations.