Paulus Schoutsen
@paulusschoutsen.nl
Founder Home Assistant and Nabu Casa. Building the Open Home, follow progress @ https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org
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
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.
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
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
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
More info at github.com/sendspin/sen...
Or quickly start a party from the command line
uvx sendspin serve retro.dancewave.online/retrodance.mp3
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.
Update rolling out and made available in Home Assistant within next few hours.
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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.
Update rolling out and made available in Home Assistant within next few hours.
Big update to my dashboard screenshot add-on Puppet. Version 2.0 now includes a UI to easily generate a screenshot URL, including live data from Home Assistant.
github.com/balloob/home...
github.com/balloob/home...
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Big update to my dashboard screenshot add-on Puppet. Version 2.0 now includes a UI to easily generate a screenshot URL, including live data from Home Assistant.
github.com/balloob/home...
github.com/balloob/home...
Got Cory's new book. It is excellent 👌
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Got Cory's new book. It is excellent 👌
𝙷̶𝚘̶𝚠̶ ̶𝚏̶𝚊̶𝚛̶ ̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚞̶𝚜̶𝚑̶ ̶𝚉̶-̶𝚆̶𝚊̶𝚟̶𝚎̶?̶
How far can we move Z-Wave!
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐙-𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Place your ZWA-2 antenna anywhere you want and connect it back to Home Assistant using Wi-Fi or PoE.
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10...
How far can we move Z-Wave!
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐙-𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Place your ZWA-2 antenna anywhere you want and connect it back to Home Assistant using Wi-Fi or PoE.
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10...
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
𝙷̶𝚘̶𝚠̶ ̶𝚏̶𝚊̶𝚛̶ ̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚞̶𝚜̶𝚑̶ ̶𝚉̶-̶𝚆̶𝚊̶𝚟̶𝚎̶?̶
How far can we move Z-Wave!
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐙-𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Place your ZWA-2 antenna anywhere you want and connect it back to Home Assistant using Wi-Fi or PoE.
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10...
How far can we move Z-Wave!
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐙-𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Place your ZWA-2 antenna anywhere you want and connect it back to Home Assistant using Wi-Fi or PoE.
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10...
12 years working on Home Assistant. I still debug my tests like this 😅
September 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
12 years working on Home Assistant. I still debug my tests like this 😅
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.
September 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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.
Phone app on Pixel making sure I never have to talk to a human again 👌
August 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Phone app on Pixel making sure I never have to talk to a human again 👌
And once you have an image, we were able to use Google Veo 3 to turn it into a video 🤯
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And once you have an image, we were able to use Google Veo 3 to turn it into a video 🤯
This new model is able to keep object consistency, allowing you to explore a lot of different use cases. I first had it remove the background, and then continued to use that image as input for further requests.
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This new model is able to keep object consistency, allowing you to explore a lot of different use cases. I first had it remove the background, and then continued to use that image as input for further requests.
My brother is an artist and is working on a new project called DreamFeed, headlining Gogbot in Enschede next month. It works by requiring people watching a social media feed to work out to swipe to see more content.
I had early access to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and decided to have some fun.
I had early access to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and decided to have some fun.
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My brother is an artist and is working on a new project called DreamFeed, headlining Gogbot in Enschede next month. It works by requiring people watching a social media feed to work out to swipe to see more content.
I had early access to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and decided to have some fun.
I had early access to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and decided to have some fun.
Home Assistant allows you to experience the future today. Take this accomplishment from /u/Monokside on Reddit: dashboard showing real-time shower stats, announcement when target temperature reached and a summary at the end. Excellent, no notes 👌
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
August 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Home Assistant allows you to experience the future today. Take this accomplishment from /u/Monokside on Reddit: dashboard showing real-time shower stats, announcement when target temperature reached and a summary at the end. Excellent, no notes 👌
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
Visited Bluetooth today 😎 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_...
August 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Visited Bluetooth today 😎 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_...
I just looked at Zen Browser again as a replacement for Arc and it has come a long way! It is great.
Open source, powered by Firefox, and most important of all: maintained by an active community ❤️
zen-browser.app
Open source, powered by Firefox, and most important of all: maintained by an active community ❤️
zen-browser.app
August 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I just looked at Zen Browser again as a replacement for Arc and it has come a long way! It is great.
Open source, powered by Firefox, and most important of all: maintained by an active community ❤️
zen-browser.app
Open source, powered by Firefox, and most important of all: maintained by an active community ❤️
zen-browser.app
Asked my son to integrate Home Assistant into his vibe coding. Now his pong game bounces around the logo and every bounce changes the light 🤩
July 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Asked my son to integrate Home Assistant into his vibe coding. Now his pong game bounces around the logo and every bounce changes the light 🤩
Great interview with Signal boss @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in the Volkskrant today. Netherlands in top 5 countries Signal users and grown x25 since January, wow!
July 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great interview with Signal boss @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in the Volkskrant today. Netherlands in top 5 countries Signal users and grown x25 since January, wow!
Yay, @home-assistant.io is verified 🎉
June 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yay, @home-assistant.io is verified 🎉
It's wild how AI has accelerated how I work. Integrations in Home Assistant can be similar, but none are ever exactly the same. With Claude I point it at a change for one integration and tell it to apply it to another integration and it succeeds 🤯 I did that 5x today and saved days of work.
June 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It's wild how AI has accelerated how I work. Integrations in Home Assistant can be similar, but none are ever exactly the same. With Claude I point it at a change for one integration and tell it to apply it to another integration and it succeeds 🤯 I did that 5x today and saved days of work.
Home Assistant having an extremely flexible dashboard engine allows our community to quickly test any new design that pops up. /u/Pivotonian on Reddit did that with Liquid Glass style from Apple. He shared the YAML, anyone can try it. Now that's the power of open! 💪
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
June 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Home Assistant having an extremely flexible dashboard engine allows our community to quickly test any new design that pops up. /u/Pivotonian on Reddit did that with Liquid Glass style from Apple. He shared the YAML, anyone can try it. Now that's the power of open! 💪
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
Have you noticed the beautiful art accompanying the @openhomefoundation.org newsletters? That's not some AI prompt but amazing art by our in-house artist/designer Clelia Rella.
Subscribe for free to get her latest art in your inbox: newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/
Subscribe for free to get her latest art in your inbox: newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/
June 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Have you noticed the beautiful art accompanying the @openhomefoundation.org newsletters? That's not some AI prompt but amazing art by our in-house artist/designer Clelia Rella.
Subscribe for free to get her latest art in your inbox: newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/
Subscribe for free to get her latest art in your inbox: newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/
Arrived in Dublin. Blending in.
May 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Arrived in Dublin. Blending in.
I've created a tool to test integrations against our integration quality rules using AI. It generates per integration and rule a report explaining if the integration satisfies the rule and if not, what needs to change in the integration to pass the rule. It's been useful! github.com/balloob/home...
May 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I've created a tool to test integrations against our integration quality rules using AI. It generates per integration and rule a report explaining if the integration satisfies the rule and if not, what needs to change in the integration to pass the rule. It's been useful! github.com/balloob/home...
Just released ESPHome 2025.5 includes the latest iteration of our voice assistant that can work fully local.
All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing!
All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing!
May 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just released ESPHome 2025.5 includes the latest iteration of our voice assistant that can work fully local.
All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing!
All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing!