Description: I am a blogger, podcaster and screencaster who loves automation and productivity.
There was a post on the Home Assistant subreddit today asking how people document their smart homes . As I took a little bit of time to write up my response and include some links I thought it would be worth sharing!
I use Obsidian to document setup/installation processes, my network, and similar.
For example, my network note has a Mermaid diagram for approximate layout (router, switches, and devices have their own shapes, lines connect ethernet devices, wifi devices aren’t on the diagram), and a table with names, MAC addresses and DHCP assigned IPs of devices as well as wifi vs ethernet. The table is generated with Dataview from a subfolder of device notes. I only document ethernet devices and wifi devices that are “important” (e.g. smart home devices that all show up on the router as Espressif will