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Paulus Schoutsen
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Founder Home Assistant and Nabu Casa. Building the Open Home, follow progress @ https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org
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Will you be at #FOSDEM or in Brussels next week and want to meet some of the team? 👀

We have a few more spots open to register for the event at Little Delirium on Jan 31! If you haven't registered yet, do so before space runs out 👇🏼

#HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #OpenSource
Meet the Home Assistant team - FOSDEM Brussels · Luma
We'd love for you to join us 😎 Join the Open Home Foundation and key members of the Home Assistant team for a meetup in Brussels during FOSDEM 2026! 🤩 We're…
luma.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
I switched to Android last year and I've been having a blast. Really allows me to make it mine - and that means a phone not set up to distract me.
January 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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kilianvalkhof.com
This article has been bouncing around in my head for the past couple of months, but I finally sat down and wrote it.
January 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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home-assistant.io
Time to say farewell 2025 and hello 2026. 😌 It's because of you, the community, that we were able to make 2025 our best year yet. 👏🏻

From all of us, to you and yours: here's to all the blessings we hope 2026 will bring. 🥂 #HappyNewYear

#SmartHome #HomeAutomation
A simple graphic of a stamp on a red background, created by our graphic artist Clelia Rella. The stamp has a beige border with a black background. Aligned to the bottom left of the stamp is the year 2026 stacked on itself in white text; from the bottom right branches out green sprigs of evergreen in the style of our antenna lines, it weaves through the numbers. Aligned to the top left in white is the Home Assistant logo and name. The red background has darker red shaded snowflakes with a few wavy lines aligned near the bottom left as if a postal carrier stamped an envelope the Home Assistant stamp is on. Under the stamp in white text reads: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
I’m actually so stuck on Andrej excitedly sharing this seemingly-impressive use of AI, which actually recapitulates tons of existing work to create new and exciting security issues. Any human engineer would have been like, idk dude just use Home Assistant
moultano.bsky.social Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · Dec 28
This seems like AGI.
I was inspired by this so I wanted to see if Claude Code can get into my Lutron home automation system. - it found my Lutron controllers on the local wifi network - checked for open ports, connected, got some metadata and identified the devices and their firmware - searched the internet, found the pdf for my system - instructed me on what button to press to pair and get the certificates - it connected to the system and found all the home devices (lights, shades, HVAC temperature control, motion sensors etc.) - it turned on and off my kitchen lights to check that things are working (lol!) I am now vibe coding the home automation master command center, the potential is 🔥.And I'm throwing away the crappy, janky, slow Lutron iOS app I've been using so far. Insanely fun :D :D
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
If you want to impress friends and family this Christmas, host a Sendspin party!

More info at github.com/sendspin/sen...

Or quickly start a party from the command line

uvx sendspin serve retro.dancewave.online/retrodance.mp3
December 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
Your Home Assistant Voice PE just got better! Update to the latest firmware to receive Sendspin support. Multi-room audio, perfectly in sync, streamed from Music Assistant.

Update rolling out and made available in Home Assistant within next few hours.
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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
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home-assistant.io
We aren't vocal about the meetups hosted by the @openhomefoundation.org but we're changing that! Our Event Manager, Flor, is hard at work coordinating more frequent meetups. 😌 We have 4 events scheduled through March! 🙌🏻

Las Vegas - Jan 6 | Brussels - Jan 31 | Utrecht - Feb 3 | London - Feb 25

🔗🧵
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
Can't wait to wear the HA blue one! 😍
ericmigi.com Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · Dec 22
Off the plane, into the fire!
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
paulusschoutsen.nl
Portable Z-Wave just got faster. When used over Ethernet, it matches speeds of a direct USB connection!

Portable Z-Wave on the ZWA-2 got an extra goodie: allow Home Assistant to leverage the Wi-Fi antenna in the ZWA-2 to talk to Bluetooth devices at same time.

Learn more here:
Connect ZWA-2 anywhere: Use Z-Wave over Wi-Fi or PoE
Introducing Portable Z-Wave, an experimental firmware that lets you use Z-Wave over the built-in Wi-Fi or even add PoE.
www.home-assistant.io
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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bgoncal.bsky.social
New controls coming to #iOS @home-assistant.io in January 🥳
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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home-assistant.io
Happy #NationalUglySweaterDay! What started in the US has become an international event as we embrace the beauty in ugly. 😌

Today we're showing off our ugly sweaters: now show us your best! 🤩 Or maybe share a design you'd like to see in our merch store for Holidays 2026... 👀

#HomeAssistant
Paulus Schoutsen, Founder of Home Assistant, sits in his office looking left off-camera wearing a red, black, green, and off-white GitHub ugly sweater obtained from GitHub Universe 2024; across his chest in text is "GitHub", the green sections have GitHub iconography patterned around, and the heads of Mona and Copilot in the off-white section. The wall behind him is white 3D-printed panels, with a Home Assistant Green poster and a block star from Mario Bros on a table. He's sporting a scruffy beard and the "Home Assistant haircut" (meaning, no head hair). Framed around the image is a red border with "@PAULUS" in white text in the top right, the white Home Assistant logo in the bottom left, and "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER DAY" in white text is vertical in both the top left and bottom right. JLo Pouffier, Lead of Product & UX @ the Open Home Foundation, sits at a table in his home in his green party dog ugly sweater, holding a mug as if toasting the onlooker; the party dog has red sunglasses & sequin party hat on, surrounded by a pattern of candy, ornaments, & stockings. On the table lays Home Assistant hardware devices, a 2-way radio, and at least 1000 stacked business cards, and the TV behind him has Now, Next, Later roadmap items intentionally left blank. He's smiling at the camera with his black hair short, sporting a full beard, and he's wearing round wire-framed glasses; the arm holding the mug is tattooed. Framed around the image is a red border with "@JLO" in white text in the top right, the white Home Assistant logo in the bottom left, and "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER DAY" in white text is vertical in both the top left and bottom right. Missy Quarry, Community & Social Media Manager @ the Open Home Foundation, is wearing Microsoft's infamous blue and green Clippy ugly sweater in front of her Yule tree holding 2 Furby Connect dolls in her hands - her current tinkering project; the left Furby is pink and the right one is teal. Clippy has a text bubble next to him with the text "Happy Holidays!" in it and an "ok" button below. She's smiling at the camera with her dark green curly hair down, wearing large cat's eye glasses with black frames and an intricate rose gold nose ring. Framed around the image is a red border with "@MISSY" in white text in the top right, the white Home Assistant logo in the bottom left, and "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER DAY" in white text is vertical in both the top left and bottom right.
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
With the Open Home Foundation we keep pushing to make things more open, even if that means that we have to do the hard work re-inventing things from the ground up to ensure it is accessible to all. If you use Music Assistant or make music hardware/software, want to help test our new standard?
Sendspin is ESPHome's answer to Sonos-style multi-room audio
Sendspin is a new and powerful protocol that's easy to use.
www.xda-developers.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
Nabu Casa was just the first commercial partner of the Open Home Foundation. Today, we got a second. Apollo will steward the ESPHome brand and will work with OHF on amazing ESPHome products!
Meet our new commercial partner: Apollo Automation
We chat to Apollo Automation about why they've joined us as our second partner. Plus we talk toilets, and why things seem to be getting worse.
newsletter.openhomefoundation.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
paulusschoutsen.nl
This kind of BS is why I left iOS for Android earlier this year (and pre-ordered the Pebble Time!). We need platforms that allow anyone to innovate, not just the creator.
ericmigi.com Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · Dec 16
iPhone Pebble watch users will finally be able to reply to all notifications! At least in the EU...thanks to the DMA

Someone sent me more details about Apple's AccessoryNotification SDK - it will be region locked to EU. But the upside is that it has an API for responding to notifications, finally!
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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theverge.com
Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again
Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again
More cause for RATGDO
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December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
paulusschoutsen.nl
Super happy to see the NYTimes cover the fight to have users take back control of their own devices. (And RATGDO is powered by our ESPHome!)
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.12 🎄

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12...

Labs with Winter mode ❄️, purpose-specific triggers and conditions for automations 🧠, system-wide default dashboards 📱, real-time power monitoring ⚡ and much more to close out 2025!

#HomeAssistant
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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syshack.ch
I’ve just completed an initial version of my #ESPHome Genie Port: github.com/pvizeli/esph.... It’s incredible how straightforward it has become to create and enhance #ESPHome configurations with the assistance of Claude.AI.
GitHub - pvizeli/esphome-genie: ESPHome Firmware for Rituals Genie
ESPHome Firmware for Rituals Genie. Contribute to pvizeli/esphome-genie development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
paulusschoutsen.nl
"Developers write integrations for devices they personally own. Reviewers test contributions against devices in their own homes. Break something, and you break your own house. Improve something, and you improve your daily life."

GitHub did a great write-up on what makes Home Assistant so special.
“The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house
Learn how one of GitHub’s fastest-growing open source projects is redefining smart homes without the cloud.
github.blog
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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timcappalli.me
The migration from SkyConnect to Home Assistant Connect (ZBT-2) with ZHA was super seamless. Took less than 30 seconds!

#homeassistant #zbt2
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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philhawthorne.com
The final release of @home-assistant.io is almost here! Rohan and I are live-streaming a recording for the Home Assistant Podcast tomorrow joined by @frenck.social on our Patreon and YouTube channels!

Join us if you're around to see the year out

https://youtube.com/live/99zWGqlBI1g

YouTube thumbnail for the 2025.12 release episode of the Home Assistant Podcast
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM