About
What this repository is for
Blairmont Vault is the note layer for the property. Home Assistant knows the current state of the house — which lights are on, what the thermostats are doing, whether a garage door is open. It does not know why a contractor was chosen, what the water heater's model number is, when the roof warranty expires, or what was decided last spring and then forgotten.
That is what lives here. The vault is a plain-text Obsidian vault kept under version control,
so the house's paperwork, decisions, measurements, and running notes have somewhere to
accumulate that survives an app migration, a laptop replacement, or a change of tooling.
Markdown files in Git, readable in fifty years with cat.
The rule of thumb: if it describes how the house behaves, it belongs in the Home Assistant repo. If it describes what the house is — its parts, its history, its documents, its open questions — it belongs in the vault.
Where it sits
Two repositories, one house
louisalexander/homeassistant
The system
Configuration, 44 automations, dashboards, and the published manual at blairmont.pages.dev. Tested and deployed by CI.
louisalexander/blairmont-vault
The record
Notes, documents, receipts, warranties, and decisions. Synced from Obsidian, captured through an inbox, reviewed by hand.
How capture works
Inbox first, filing second
The vault is built around a capture queue rather than a folder tree you have to think about at the moment of writing. Anything worth keeping lands in the inbox immediately; sorting is a separate, later, deliberate act.
Step 1
Capture
A note, photo, or document is appended to the sync inbox.
Step 2
Sync
Git carries the inbox between Obsidian and this repository.
Step 3
File
Items are drained from the inbox into permanent vault notes.
Current contents
Honest state of the repository, as of 22 August 2026
This repo was created on 19 August 2026 and is still at the scaffold stage. The structure below reflects what is actually committed today, not an aspirational layout.
| Path | Purpose | Status |
|---|---|---|
_sync/inbox.json |
Capture queue. Currently holds an empty items array — seeded, not yet in use. |
Seeded |
site/ |
This page. Static, self-contained, deployed to Cloudflare Pages. | Live |
| Vault notes | The Obsidian vault proper — property records, equipment, decisions. | Planned |
Access
Why this page is not open to the internet
The vault concerns a private residence — addresses, equipment, documents, and schedules. The GitHub repository is private, and this page sits behind Cloudflare Access, so reaching it requires authenticating against the Blairmont Zero Trust team rather than merely knowing the URL. Nothing here is meant to be indexed.