I started building automations I expected to fail and my smart home became far more reliable

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I started building automations I expected to fail and my smart home became far more reliable

Home Assistant is incredibly powerful, but all that complexity means things can and do go wrong. I was tired of one of my most useful automations failing, so I decided to rewrite the automation with the expectation that it would fail. The result is that my smart home is now far more reliable.