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Green the whole time
Three days blind to every HomeKit sensor in the house, with every health check reporting fine.
15
The car was unlocked at the clinic
A debounce I added to suppress noise ate the one signal that meant I had walked away.
14
The guest unplugged the house
I put everything the house depends on in the one room I lend to other people.
13
Changing the router with the house switched on
A phased cutover, an authentication detour, and twenty minutes where nothing could resolve a hostname.
12
Chasing a ghost through the walls
Two weeks of lights cycling at night, a theory that was wrong, and a fix that meant deleting the clever part.
11
A light that means something is wrong
Joining my switches to a second Matter fabric to get at an LED strip, then making it boring on purpose.
10
The news that played to nobody
Three layers of the morning routine each reported success. None of them were doing their job.
09
The car that wouldn't lock
A twenty minute timer swallowed the only ping that mattered.
08
Sixty-eight minutes of dark
I cut the power myself, from a room a floor below it. The house stayed dark long after the power came back.
07
The day iCloud ate the server
One checkbox turned every file on the machine into a placeholder and killed the lot.
06
Calibrating a staircase
Forty minutes of sweeping a dimmer past a light meter to find out my stairs peak at 85 percent.
05
The switch that lied
It reported on. It reported a brightness. There was no bulb attached to it.
04
The sensors move house
Three sensors changed rooms and took a week of small breakages with them.
03
Teaching a house where the people are
Room sensing with no sensors, and a bug that was mine the whole time.
02
Sixty-two devices and no way in
HomeKit will happily run my house. It will not let a script talk to it.
01
Starting from a dumb house
I bought a place in May. Every light in it was a light switch and nothing else.