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        <title>Tuning My Home Assistant Automations on Real Data Instead of Guessing</title>
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        <summary type="html">My bathroom fan kept starting when nobody was showering, and my bedroom night mode kept switching itself off at 2 am. I stopped guessing, exported Home Assistant&#39;s history and replayed it against the rules, with Claude writing the replay scripts. Here&#39;s how that works and what the numbers said.</summary>
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