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The ESPHome Starter Kit is here(esphome.io)
4 points by balloob 1mo ago|0 comments
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OpenDisplay – open standard for e-paper screens(opendisplay.org)
5 points by balloob 4mo ago|0 comments
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by balloob 5mo ago
WebSerial just landed in Firefox nightly! https://bsky.app/profile/paulusschoutsen.nl/post/3mjfdx3ujta...
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by balloob 5mo ago
Kalman filters are great! For people interested of one used in practice, it's used by Sendspin to keep speakers in sync, even works in browsers on phones on 5G etc. Open the Sendspin live demo in your browser: https://www.se
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by balloob 7mo ago
Home Assistant [1] has been written using web components and it has been great. In 13 years that we've been around, we never had to do a full rewrite of the frontend but always have been able to gradually update components as needed. N
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by balloob 7mo ago
This has never been the case. Custom elements are DOM Elements and so are just JavaScript objects. Just like you can do aEl.disabled = true, you can set any prop to any type of value.
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I used Claude to vibe-code my overcomplicated smart home(theverge.com)
1 points by balloob 8mo ago|0 comments
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Building the AI-powered local smart home(home-assistant.io)
1 points by balloob 1y ago|2 comments
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Z-Wave Reborn – Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2(home-assistant.io)
2 points by balloob 1y ago|0 comments
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2025.8: The Summer of AI(home-assistant.io)
2 points by balloob 1y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 1y ago
Does the new app make it easier for users to expose the Ollama daemon on the network (and mdns discovery )? It’s still trickier than needed for Home Assistant users to get started with Ollama (which tends to run on a different machine).
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by balloob 1y ago
Sounds very cool! Also interested in how to follow progress. Is it using ESPHome?
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by balloob 1y ago
We don't want to come to rely on donations and have to show Wikipedia-style beg banners in our app (I would personally hate to see that myself). So with the limited resources that we have, we currently only consider bigger donations va
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by balloob 1y ago
Founder Home Assistant here. Want to chime in that I always love to see write ups like these to see the great things what people achieve with Home Assistant. Not everyone might know, but last year we started the Open Home Foundation as a no
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by balloob 1y ago
Wifi yes. Thread depends on the settings on the Thread Border Router. Ours defaults to no internet access.
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by balloob 1y ago
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but check out the Shelly BLU Button1. It's a BLE button with a long battery life. It sends out BLE packets when pressed, which can be picked up by Home Assistant via a Bluetooth adapter or us
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by balloob 1y ago
There is Zigbee, Z-Wave and Matter. These are all smart home standards that are fully local and devices will be able to be set up and used even when the company goes out of business. You are however limited to the things that are standardiz
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by balloob 1y ago
Founder Home Assistant here. Want to chime in that I always love to see write ups like these to see the great things what people achieve with Home Assistant. Not everyone might know, but last year we started the Open Home Foundation[1] as a
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AI voice control at what cost(newsletter.openhomefoundation.org)
1 points by balloob 1y ago|0 comments
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Speech-to-Phrase: ultra fast local voice control of the smart home(home-assistant.io)
3 points by balloob 2y ago|0 comments
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Model Context Protocol in Home Assistant(home-assistant.io)
2 points by balloob 2y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 2y ago
We need to stop chasing compatible API endpoints and work towards an AI standard. I wrote about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887610
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Can someone create an LLM standard?(gist.github.com)
6 points by balloob 2y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 2y ago
Our launch post covers a lot of the original intentions and a good starting point: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-... The way the world works, you need to be either a company or a non-profi
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by balloob 2y ago
Not from our side. You can see our roadmap here; https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/15/roadmap-2024h2... Now the community should be able to create such things, as our automation engine is very p
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by balloob 2y ago
You're right. Home Assistant is the best toolbox out there, but people need to build things themselves. That's something we plan to tackle, but no timeline. Leak sensors, smoke detectors, CO2 sensors, garage door openers, they can
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by balloob 2y ago
We are working on the automations UI as we speak! (this can also be seen on our roadmap update https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/15/roadmap-2024h2... )
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by balloob 2y ago
We have very good relationships across the industry, especially the bigger companies. I literally just came back from a meeting with Google Home :) Where we see the most pushback is from industries adjacent to the smart home, as they don&#x
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by balloob 2y ago
Like the other commenter said, smart switches are the way to go. I prefer the Shelly modules behind light switches. They are tiny, affordable and their new generation does Zigbee/Wifi/Matter/Bluetooth, so always something tha
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by balloob 2y ago
We've actively managing our backwards incompatible changes, but sometimes it's out of our control (ie an API change). For things we deprecate in Home Assistant, it is a minimum of 6 months period where we print warnings with alter

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