In this livestream I dig into my Home Assistant automations and talk through what I think I’m doing right, what’s kind of a mess, and what’s still missing. This all spun out of my Android tablet control video—people wanted to know how I’m actually automating stuff behind the dashboards, especially the TV/Plex flow I use for my son. I’ll show you the real-world reasoning behind my choices, because in a house that’s actually lived in, “perfect” automations don’t matter nearly as much as reliable ones. A big example is how I had my son’s TV automated with an Aqara FP2 presence sensor: walk into the room, TV turns on, Plex opens, and it resumes what he was watching; leave for 5 minutes, TV turns off. That worked… until it didn’t. Once we got him a safety bed with a canopy, the sensor couldn’t reliably see him, so the whole thing fell apart. So I pivoted: I converted those automations into simple scripts and trigger them from the tablet buttons instead. I also show the YAML and explain the dependencies (Roku + Plex integrations), the delays I had to bake in, and why I use AI tools like Claude to help me build and troubleshoot YAML without blindly trusting it.