Headless Chicken

Engineering notes on home automation, embedded systems and self-hosted infrastructure.

About

A personal technical notebook kept by a mechatronics engineer. It documents builds, configurations and lessons learned from running smart home and IoT systems locally, without cloud dependencies.

Topics

• Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and Matter/Thread networks
• ESP32 and ESPHome firmware for sensors, IR control and gate automation
• Node-RED automation design
• Local NVR and computer vision with Frigate
• Self-hosted services, networking and backups

Status

Notes are being migrated here. Write-ups will be published as they are cleaned up.