Curated hosting through Home Assistant
Home Assistant systems designed, built, and automated for you.
Server, network, and configuration built from scratch — local-first, no monthly fees, yours to keep.
Smart lighting scenes, door locks, sensors, and voice control that the whole household can actually use.
Security camera and NVR integration with local recording, person detection, and clean mobile alerts.
Router, VLAN, and Wi-Fi optimization so automations respond instantly and devices stay online.
Dashboards and routines shaped around how your home actually moves through a day.
mmWave and multi-sensor presence detection so rooms respond to people, not to motion guesses.
Room-by-room comfort tied to occupancy, humidity, and schedule — quieter systems and lower bills.
Water-leak, smoke, and CO monitoring with automatic shutoffs and alerts that reach you anywhere.
Inherited a half-finished smart home? I audit it, fix what's broken, and document what's left.
Devices and platforms from different brands, made to work together. Keep using the apps you already have while we transition you onto Home Assistant — nothing gets ripped out on day one.
Local-first, vendor-neutral, and documented — so nothing depends on a subscription staying alive.
Home Assistant server, PoE switch, and Zigbee coordinator, tidied into one closet.
A custom dashboard built around the rooms people actually use.
Scenes tied to sunset, presence, and time of day — no switch-hunting.
Local camera recording with person alerts that don't cry wolf.
I'm Blake Hoopingarner — a hospitality operations leader in Atlanta who has spent his career on the unglamorous half of a great experience: the systems, the standards, and the quiet fixes nobody notices when they work.
Home automation is the same discipline in a smaller building. I plan the install, document the setup, and hand you something reliable enough that you forget it's there. Everything runs locally on hardware you own.
Based in Atlanta, GA. Available for in-home consults and remote configuration.
Separate track
Thirteen years of restaurant and luxury-hotel leadership — P&L, openings, and teams. That career lives on its own page, with a write-up for each place I worked.
Thirteen years of operations leadership, in detail.