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Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Having a smart home is nice, but when shit hits the fan, I imagine myself living in a far-away cabin. But then again… McDonald’s wouldn’t deliver there, so I get back to work 😂

January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 12d

Want to contribute to Home Assistant but not sure where to start? 🧐

Then check out the "good first issue" label for our Android Companion app! These issues are selected for their relative approachability for first-time contributors! 👀

github.com/home-assista...

January 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM

Reposted by Bruno Pantaleão

Matías Fernández

@matiasfernandez.bsky.social

Experiment? I already went to the App Store twice to download it. When does the beta open? 🤓

January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Progress on the native dashboard experiment for @home-assistant.io iOS App, now the goal is to copy what the new web “home” dashboard is doing + some extra customization.

Known issues: “everything” 😂

January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Looking forward to receive the new Aqara U400 directly from US (to the Netherlands), but at the same time a bit afraid of making the deadbolt hole at my front door since it has glass very close to where the hole needs to be 😂

January 9, 2026 at 10:05 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

I have tested so many mmWave sensors already, each one works for specific rooms from my experience 😂 difficult to recommend to a friend. This weekend I’ll be testing the Aqara FP300

January 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM

Reposted by Bruno Pantaleão

Open Home Foundation

@openhomefoundation.org

Big news from today's @home-assistant.io live stream: April 8 is the date of this year’s State of the Open Home — an annual event where we highlight what’s new and what’s coming next for our projects.

Mark your calendars – more details coming soon!

January 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

What about a @home-assistant.io iOS native camera manager screen? 👍🏻 👎🏻?

January 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Experimenting with how a native iOS app for @home-assistant.io could look like. 👍👎?

January 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

@home-assistant.io iOS tip, use the action button to open Home Assistant App and also for Assist if the app is already open, combo 2-in-1 www.icloud.com/shortcuts/52...

December 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

New controls coming to #iOS @home-assistant.io in January 🥳

December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM

Reposted by Bruno Pantaleão

TheFes

@thefes.casa

The last week I've been busy creating #homeassistant blueprints for voice commands. Right now my new Github repo has blueprints for 🌦 weather forecasts (both local and LLM), 📅 calendar entries (local and LLM) and list ✅ todo items (only local). more to come! 💙https://github.com/TheFes/ha-blueprints

GitHub - TheFes/ha-blueprints: Home Assistant Blueprints for (voice) commands

Home Assistant Blueprints for (voice) commands. Contribute to TheFes/ha-blueprints development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

January 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

I’m currently working on a widget builder for @home-assistant.io #iOS App, it has been 🥵 but it’s going great 🙌🏻

January 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM

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Matthias de Baat

@matthiasdebaat.com

Tomorrow, I’ll be live with a few my Nabu Casa colleagues to talk about the latest @home-assistant.io release.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCd7...

Home Assistant 2025.1 Release Party

YouTube video by Home Assistant

www.youtube.com

January 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Reposted by Bruno Pantaleão

Paulus Schoutsen

@paulusschoutsen.nl

Achievement unlocked! I joined the Vergecast to discuss the Matter smart home standard 😎

youtu.be/0Y75XEXAXfY?...

#homeassistant

The Vergecast Matter Holiday Spec-Tacular | The Vergecast

Happy holidays! Before we disappear into family time and catching up on our favorite shows, we have one more episode for you. And it's 90 minutes of deep nerdery about the smart home. Every year, we try to dig into one standard or spec that has impacted our lives this year, and we couldn't think of anything more potentially great and occasionally infuriating than Matter. Matter is supposed to be the protocol that makes the smart home work — so, uh, how's that going? The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins to discuss the state of the smart home, before we play a game to see how well we understand things. Then, Home Assistant creator Paulus Schoutsen tells us what it's like to try and make Matter work, and where we might be headed next year. Further reading: Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow...

youtu.be

December 23, 2024 at 5:27 AM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Good automation for when your phone can reach the wifi when in the garage but the signal is not good enough for basically anything.

December 20, 2024 at 2:01 AM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Para os Brasileiros 🇧🇷 comprando o Voice-PE do @home-assistant.io , a melhor configuração que recomendo é:
- STT: Google cloud
- Conversation Agent: HA com fallback pra Claude LLM
- TTS: Piper com a voz “Faber”, se o seu hardware não aguentar gerar rápido você pode usar o HA Cloud

December 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM

Reposted by Bruno Pantaleão

The Verge

@theverge.com

Home Assistant’s new voice assistant answers to ‘Hey Jarvis’

Now you can ask Jarvis to turn off your lights.

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December 19, 2024 at 9:10 PM

Reposted by Bruno Pantaleão

Home Assistant

@home-assistant.io

It's here! 🎉

We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌

Find more details here: www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

Catch up on the news here:

The era of open voice assistants has arrived

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the best way to get started with our open and privacy-focused voice assistant.

www.home-assistant.io

December 19, 2024 at 11:50 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

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‎Survivor Ink

‎Have you ever ran out of black ink in your printer and got stuck trying to print a document? Ink survivor helps you replacing the black ink content in your images by another color, so you can print ...

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December 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Update to @home-assistant.io iOS App v2024.12.2 and drop it’s App icon, instead, access your favorite dashboards directly from the widget 😁

December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM

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Home Assistant

@home-assistant.io

Pst. You, yeah you.

Have you hit that 🔔 on our YouTube channel to get notifications? We're pretty sure there's something happening on Thursday... 🧐

youtube.com/live/ZgoaoTp...

December 17, 2024 at 7:57 PM

Bruno Pantaleão

@bgoncal.bsky.social

Super power your automations with this “hack” between @home-assistant.io and Apple Shortcuts. Send an email to yourself then use it as automation trigger in shortcuts app, check this example turning an email into a SMS