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Our washing machine died, so I bought a Miele for its native Home Assistant integration — then found it has no delayed-start register like the dishwasher.
The logbook card shows both Detected and Cleared for camera sensors. The fix: an input_text rolling log, an automation with trigger IDs, and a markdown card.
The built-in MeteoAlarm integration shows one alert at a time. cap_alerts creates one entity per DMI alert — storm, cloudburst, snow and heat, independently.
Full FMDN setup for Home Assistant — fix the unavailable state, dark-theme the Leaflet map via shadow DOM injection, and know when FMDN isn't the right tool.
What the MyŠkoda integration actually gives you in HA, what's missing, and a useful EV dashboard with battery progress and pre-conditioning.
Bosch dishwasher via Home Connect: a dashboard with programme selection and finish-time control, plus a button that finds the cheapest hour to run.
How I combined four Google Calendars plus waste collection into a single colour-coded HA view that replaced the wall calendar we'd had for years.
An HA home screen where every card earns its place: conditional cards, a priority alert ticker, and a Škoda section that follows the charger state.
Roborock S5 Max in Home Assistant: interactive map card, room-segment cleaning, and the maintenance tracking that saves your brushes.
5 Tado zones in Home Assistant with mushroom climate cards, a CSS breathing animation for active heating, and presence setback that works.
The six CSS constants I use on every card across three HA dashboards, plus patterns for progress bars, map cards and the ::before overlay.