Home Tinkering SIG Recap - 11/18/2025

Here’s the link to the Google Drive directory with the meeting notes, and with Evan’s slides:

Also, since James and others asked about why you may or may not want to run Home Assistant in a virtual machine, a few folks including me described some of the pros/cons we encountered doing that in this thread:
https://yo.asmbly.org/t/home-tinkering-sig-11-18-and-12-16-plans/14656

Next time (12/16), we’ll pick up where we left off! I’ll bring the mini-wall-frame back and have more dumb switches and things installed, so we can replace them with Z-Wave smart switches during the meeting (preferably folks who haven’t done it before can try it out). Then we’ll set up the Home Assistant Green and add the smart switches. After that, anyone can try controlling these by running Home Assistant as an app on their phone or in a web browser. Hope to see you there!

Copied some deal links from the HomeAssistant discord server:

UPDATED Nov 26 : There are a handful of WWHA partners who have shared with us their Black Friday deals. :clappy: The company name links are directly to their partner page on our website, and the device links go directly to the product pages.