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Home Assistant Recorder: Cut Database Growth from 160 MB/day to Under 50 MB
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Home Assistant Recorder: Cut Database Growth from 160 MB/day to Under 50 MB

My HA SQLite database hit 963 MB in six days. The exact recorder config that cut daily growth by over 70% — full YAML and the reasoning.

May 31, 2026 · 4 min read Read more →
Nightly Home Assistant Health Checks with GitHub Actions
#maintenance #infrastructure #automation

Nightly Home Assistant Health Checks with GitHub Actions

A nightly CI pipeline runs 22 tests against my live Home Assistant setup and opens a GitHub issue when something breaks — before I notice.

May 11, 2026 · 4 min read Read more →