My Home Assistant Journey in 2025

This blog post details the author's seven-year journey with Home Assistant, starting from a simple setup with IKEA smart bulbs in a small apartment to a sprawling smart home with over 100 devices. The core of the post focuses on using Home Assistant's Adaptive Lighting for sophisticated light control and leveraging an AI coding assistant, Cursor, to streamline YAML configuration and debugging. The author shares optimized Adaptive Lighting configurations for various IKEA bulb types and outlines plans to integrate smart radiator valves for more precise room temperature control.