Latest Blog
How to Recover Home Assistant When Its Main Service Starts but a Dependency Fails
Treat a running Home Assistant process as only the first gate; identify the failed dependency, restore it safely, and retest the affected feature.
Why Does Home Assistant Lose Sessions After a Proxy or DNS Change?
Session loss after a proxy or DNS change usually points to an origin, cookie, WebSocket, header, or stale-resolution mismatch.
Home Assistant Works on Wi-Fi but Fails on Ethernet or VPN
Test each network path separately, verify interface and routing state, distinguish direct IP from discovery, then repair only the failed layer.
How to Decommission Home Assistant Without Leaving Unprotected Data
Prove the replacement or archive, revoke every trust path, sanitize each data-bearing device, and retain only documented protected recovery copies.
Should You Use Automatic Updates for Home Assistant on a Home Server?
Choose manual, notification-only, or staged automatic updates from household impact, compatibility risk, observation time, and recovery readiness.
Why Does Home Assistant Consume High CPU After an Update?
Time the CPU spike, identify the responsible process, isolate one component, compare versions, and retest the same workload after recovery.
When Should You Split Home Assistant Services Across Multiple Hosts?
Use evidence from peak load, outages, maintenance, and recovery tests to decide whether a database, broker, cameras, or AI service should move.
What Backup Retention Does Home Assistant Need for Safe Recovery?
Keep enough versions to recover before and after recent changes, distribute copies across failure domains, and prune only verified backups.
