The button that was simpler than I thought
Sometimes the interesting part of fixing something isn’t the fix - it’s the moment you realize you were wrong about the problem.
The one-button button
There’s a small smart button on a side table in the bedroom. The aim was simple: one press toggles the lamp plugged in nearby. That part worked fine. But I had a bigger question in mind - if this button proved useful, there’d be more of them around the house, so I wanted to know just how much I could get out of one.
The day the network let go
Every so often the network throws a tantrum. This was one of those days.
Everything broke, sort of
It started as a typical “some things work, others don’t” morning. A few devices stopped talking, an add-on that keeps certificates up to date went into a crash loop, and the assistant I use to keep the home-automation setup tidy couldn’t reach out to do anything useful. Not a clean outage - more like the network had decided to be selective about what it allowed.