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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 1d

Excellent showcase of how integrating AI into your smart home automations looks like. Learn from the master @jlpouffier.fr 🚀

Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 1d

We asked if @jlpouffier.fr could make a quick tutorial about AI Tasks like his recent video on the state of conversational AI, and he created a master class-length one by mistake. Oops! 😅

Follow along 👇🏼 as he walks you through data and image generation with AI Tasks. 😎💥

#SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Current state of AI Tasks: A Deep Dive

Follow along with JLo, Product & Design Lead @ the Open Home Foundation, as he deep dives into the current state of AI Tasks. Generate data and images through automations like magic with your choice of AI agent. More ways to follow us: Newsletter: https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/#/portal/signup Blog: https://home-assistant.io/blog/ Discord (chat): https://home-assistant.io/join-chat/ Forums: https://community.home-assistant.io Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant/ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/home_assistant

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gigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 3d

Smart device updates are essential for cybersecurity. Consumer Reports wants to ensure that smart device companies have to tell consumers how long they plan to make these updates available. Because today that information isn't always available.
advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_releas...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 8d

See you soon!

JLo @jlpouffier.fr · 8d

We just shipped the 10th @home-assistant.io release of the year!
I'll be joining the Home Assistant team to talk about what we did!
It's in one hour, and it's here!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T23...

Home Assistant 2025.10 Release Party

YouTube video by Home Assistant

www.youtube.com

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 9d

SO PROUD OF THIS! DuckDuckGo has continued their support of the Open Home Foundation this year and donated $50.000 to support our work ❤️❤️❤️ Thanks DDG! spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduc...

2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations

DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2025 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

spreadprivacy.com

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 9d

With a community as large as the Open Home Foundation, there are always many irons in the fire. Some seriously cool stuff cooking for the smart home! (and no, it's not all AI, quite the opposite).

And we're hiring more to help our community deliver jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoun...

Open Home Foundation Jobs

jobs.ashbyhq.com

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Frenck @frenck.social · 11d

Ever wanted to work on open source full-time? Come join me at the @openhomefoundation.org; we’ve got 5 new roles on @home-assistant.io.

👩‍💼 Program Manager
🐍 Python Engineers
✍️ Technical Writers

🌍 Remote. Open source, every day.
Links in replies 👇

#HomeAssistant #OpenSource #SmartHome #Hiring #Jobs

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 17d

San Diego #homeassistant community, we're coming over! The Open Home Foundation is hosting a community meetup while some of us are in town. Come join me!

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San Diego meetup · Luma

We'd love for you to join us 😎 Join the crew for a Southern California meetup at the AleHouse Brewery! The founder of Home Assistant, Paulus Schoutsen, and…

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 20d

12 years working on Home Assistant. I still debug my tests like this 😅

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 21d

This sucks so much www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

www.theverge.com

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 22d

Happy 12th birthday to us!! 🥳 Today we're celebrating the first PR made to the Home Assistant project by highlighting YOU, the community, and how the things you build keep this project growing. 😌

We may also have a couple of surprises for you! 👀 Read more 👇🏼

Happy 12th Birthday, Home Assistant!

This year we’re sharing some stories from the community and some stats about our growth.

www.home-assistant.io

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 25d

Do you have experience with leadership and growing communities? We are hiring! 👇

Community Lead

We are looking for The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Community Lead based in Europe to lead our Community team. This is a newly created team, responsible for the relationship between the Foun...

jobs.ashbyhq.com

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 25d

While the whole world is flocking to AI, we do the opposite, and are doubling down on the people. To emphasize their importance, the foundation is adding a new community department dedicated to empower, strengthen and flourish our community worldwide.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 25d

🚨 Amazing Job Alert 🚨

Community means *everything* to Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation. It's the people that build our products, it's the people that use our products. Working at the foundation means working on making the community succeed in both.

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 26d

Just some #YAMLProblems... 😅

Happy Programmer's Day, y'all! 🩵

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 27d

Great write up by Troy Hunt from Have I Been Pwned how he is using AI tools in Home Assistant to bring his automations and notifications to the next level: www.troyhunt.com/home-assista...

Home Assistant + Ubiquiti + AI = Home Automation Magic

It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they're all -

www.troyhunt.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 27d

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

onion person @junlper.beer · 27d

the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 28d

You have a choice! You can use any local model via Ollama or use some of the cloud providers that have integrations.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 28d

With Home Assistant we've been leading AI in the smart home. We've incorporated LLMs into our voice assistant, integrated MCP and allow using AI inside automations.

We are improving things all the time, so we decided it was time to do a write up to show what the state of the art looks like.

Building the AI-powered local smart home

In the past year, we’ve made significant progress in making AI a powerful tool in the home

www.home-assistant.io

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app.

Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

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The Verge @theverge.com · Sep 7

A really cheap way to get really smart lights

In this week’s Installer: cheaper Hue lights, Silksong, Instagram on iPad, and more.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · Sep 6

Managing my notes with Claude Code was project I wrote while on holiday. It's for personal use but happy to share: github.com/balloob/note...

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Matthias de Baat @matthiasdebaat.com · Sep 5

One of @home-assistant.io's greatest strengths is our community. We’re building things together, and your input will shape where it goes next.

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · Sep 3

🎉 Home Assistant 2025.9 is here... and it's MASSIVE!

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/09...

A sidebar for the automation editor 🤖, tons of new tile card features 📈, a brand new Home dashboard ✨, analog clocks 🕘, storage insights 💾, and much more!

#HomeAssistant

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · Sep 2

I've been a supporter of the Python Software Foundation for years and always make sure to vote in elections. It's important that your favorite open source projects are sustained. Support from independents is always better than relying on corporations with the inevitable strings attached.

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Phil Hawthorne @philhawthorne.com · Sep 2

Whoa! @home-assistant.io has dropped their own Z-Wave radio! 🎉

We also dive into the new 2024.9 release and chat LLM Vision use cases.

Hosted by me and Rohan. Watch now: https://youtu.be/gFCEJNV53XI

YouTube cover for the 2025.9 episode of the Home Assistant Podcast

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