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					<description><![CDATA[A companion guide for the Bear Stone Smart Home video showing how I use Home Assistant mobile action buttons and input_datetime helpers to snooze maintenance reminders without muting them forever.]]></description>
		
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		<title>All the Home Assistant Garage Automations We Actually Use</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[How I use Home Assistant garage door events as a reliable smart home signal for arrival handling, actionable entry prompts, lighting, wind alerts, nighttime checks, and Tesla plug-in reminders.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>All the Home Assistant Vacuum Automations We Use in Our Smart Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How I use Home Assistant to turn a Dreame L10s Ultra into an away-aware, room-queued, Alexa-friendly, rescue-notification vacuum workflow.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Home Assistant Vacation Mode: A Smarter Way to Watch the House While You’re Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 21:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Build a Home Assistant Vacation Mode that tracks sitter visits, sends useful reminders, checks doors and locks, and uses the video for the full walkthrough.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Weekly Digest Is Back: Smart Home Automation Ideas from My Home Assistant Config</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlo Costanzo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The weekly digest is back for my Home Assistant configuration repo, giving you a weekly way to follow new automations, resolved issues, commit activity, and smart home ideas you can adapt for your own setup.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How I Turned Joanna Into an AGENT Engineer for Home Assistant Infrastructure Issues</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlo Costanzo]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I pushed more infrastructure monitoring into Home Assistant, then used Joanna as an AGENT engineer handoff for Synology DSM and disk-pressure issues.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How I Finally Knocked Out a 9-Year-Old Home Assistant Wake on LAN Todo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I finally closed a nine-year-old Home Assistant todo by wiring SleepIQ bed presence, HASS.Agent, and Wake on LAN together so my work PC can be ready before I get to the office.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joanna Reviews Home Assistant Changelogs After Tugtainer Updates (Human in the Loop)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlo Costanzo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wired Joanna to react to Tugtainer Home Assistant Core updates, review the official changelog, and open a GitHub Update Digest issue for human review before any follow-up actions.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Home Assistant GitHub Notifications: How Joanna Finds Nightly Automation Ideas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlo Costanzo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I built a nightly Joanna scout that reviews watched GitHub repos, ignores bug noise, opens research issues, and leaves me a digest to review.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Home Assistant: Water Delivery Reminders (Night Before + Garage Alexa)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carlo Costanzo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This one is simple: when I find out the water delivery is coming, I want a reminder the night before to put the bottles out. Then, on delivery day, if the garage door opens, I want the same kind of “don’t forget before you leave” reminders we already do for the garbage cans. What I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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