Overview
Module: Module 3: Home Assistant & Secure Access
Activity type: Lesson (Orient → Recall → Learn → Explain → Reflect)
Learning objective: Given a plain-language automation requirement, the learner can implement trigger → condition → action logic and prove positive, negative, and failure cases with traces.
Bloom level: Analyze / Create
Mastery unlock for this topic: reading done + Feynman complete + quiz ≥80% (when scored) + lab gate + homework submitted
Learning objective
Given a plain-language automation requirement, the learner can implement trigger → condition → action logic and prove positive, negative, and failure cases with traces.
Why this matters
An automation that ‘usually works’ is a hazard. Testable logic: including when it must not fire: is how you trust the house.
Prior-knowledge check
Answer briefly before reading Instruction. Wrong answers are useful: they show what to review.
- What is a trigger vs a condition vs an action?
- Why might an automation fire twice?
- Where do you look when an automation misbehaves?
Learn
Complete the module reading first:
Then review the worked example inside that reading (I do).
Guided practice (We do)
We do: hints allowed. Check your reasoning against Instruction.
Fill trigger/condition/action boxes for the lesson example together.
Feynman teach-back: required
Required. Do not skip.
Explain
Describe automations as testable logic, not magic in your own words. No copying the lesson verbatim.
Simplify
Explain the same idea to a 12-year-old. If you use a technical word, define it.
Example
Analogy: a vending machine: coin (trigger), ‘in stock’ (condition), dispense (action).
Weak spot
What part was hard to explain? That is where your understanding is thin.
Retry
Return to that part of Instruction, restudy it, then rewrite a clearer explanation below.
Mastery note: a completed Feynman teach-back is required before the next class unlocks: “I get it” without explanation does not count.
Answers save in this browser (localStorage). Completing all five fields is part of the mastery unlock.
Reflection
Which negative test surprised you, and what did the trace reveal?
Also answer:
- What did I learn?
- What did I struggle with?
- How does this connect to earlier classes?
Spiral hook
Voice (11–13) will call actions that must be safe under the same discipline. Monitoring hooks here feed later n8n digests (14).