Home Assistant

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Aug 19, 2026Field note

Choosing When Hermes Agent Automations Need an LLM

I use Hermes Agent to interpret and configure automations, then let Home Assistant or a script execute repeatable actions with visible failure states.

May 27, 2026Technical guide

Grouping Lights in Home Assistant

How to group color lights in Home Assistant using Helpers — and why the old YAML platform approach stopped working in 2026.5.

Apr 30, 2026Technical guide

How to Connect Hermes Agent to Home Assistant

Two environment variables and a gateway restart. I said 'turn off all my lights' and they went off two seconds later.

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