https://homelab.tod.net/tags/ev/Recent content in Ev on Tod's HomelabHugoen-usMon, 24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0400https://homelab.tod.net/posts/automating-the-house/charging-the-car-on-sunshine/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0400https://homelab.tod.net/posts/automating-the-house/charging-the-car-on-sunshine/<p>The homelab series so far have been about infrastructure — <a href="https://homelab.tod.net/posts/downsizing-the-homelab/why-im-replacing-a-homelab-that-still-works/">servers</a>, <a href="https://homelab.tod.net/posts/off-windows/migrating-active-directory-to-samba/">identity</a>, <a href="https://homelab.tod.net/posts/downsizing-the-homelab/the-pki-detour/">certificates</a>. This starts a new one, <strong>Automating the House</strong>, about what all that infrastructure actually does all day: Home Assistant running the physical house. First up: teaching the car to drink sunshine, and the three control-loop bugs that lesson produced — the third one hiding inside the fix for the second. They weren&rsquo;t the first bugs, only the first ones the recorder caught properly: the loop was two days old and eight revisions deep before the story even starts.</p>