Paulus Schoutsen
@paulusschoutsen.nl
Founder Home Assistant and Nabu Casa. Building the Open Home, follow progress @ https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org
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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
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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
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.
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@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
@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...
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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
🔗🧵
Las Vegas - Jan 6 | Brussels - Jan 31 | Utrecht - Feb 3 | London - Feb 25
🔗🧵
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
🔗🧵
Las Vegas - Jan 6 | Brussels - Jan 31 | Utrecht - Feb 3 | London - Feb 25
🔗🧵
Can't wait to wear the HA blue one! 😍
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Can't wait to wear the HA blue one! 😍
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:
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
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:
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:
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New controls coming to #iOS @home-assistant.io in January 🥳
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New controls coming to #iOS @home-assistant.io in January 🥳
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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
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
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
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
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
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?
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
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!
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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.
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!
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
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.
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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
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again
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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
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
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
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!)
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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
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
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
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
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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
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.
"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.
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
"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.
GitHub did a great write-up on what makes Home Assistant so special.
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The migration from SkyConnect to Home Assistant Connect (ZBT-2) with ZHA was super seamless. Took less than 30 seconds!
#homeassistant #zbt2
#homeassistant #zbt2
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The migration from SkyConnect to Home Assistant Connect (ZBT-2) with ZHA was super seamless. Took less than 30 seconds!
#homeassistant #zbt2
#homeassistant #zbt2
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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
Join us if you're around to see the year out
https://youtube.com/live/99zWGqlBI1g
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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
Join us if you're around to see the year out
https://youtube.com/live/99zWGqlBI1g
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We believe Matter is changing the trajectory of the smart home industry for the better – which is why we're thrilled the developer of matter.js has donated it to the Open Home Foundation!
Discover how we plan to take an active role in shaping the future of this standard 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
Discover how we plan to take an active role in shaping the future of this standard 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
Giving matter.js a new home
The open source project matter.js has been donated to the foundation, which will help supercharge Matter Server development.
newsletter.openhomefoundation.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We believe Matter is changing the trajectory of the smart home industry for the better – which is why we're thrilled the developer of matter.js has donated it to the Open Home Foundation!
Discover how we plan to take an active role in shaping the future of this standard 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
Discover how we plan to take an active role in shaping the future of this standard 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
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Wrote a blog this week on how to build this @home-assistant.io epaper digital art frame, based on the @seeedstudio.com E1002, an IKEA picture frame, my ESPHome config and two 3D printed spacers. Guide and all files available here:
Epaper digital art frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 display and IKEA RÖDALM using ESPHome and Home Assistant – Style over Substance
Learn how to create an digital art display using the epaper reTerminal E1002, my ESPHome config, 3D-printed spacers, and an IKEA picture frame.
style.oversubstance.net
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Wrote a blog this week on how to build this @home-assistant.io epaper digital art frame, based on the @seeedstudio.com E1002, an IKEA picture frame, my ESPHome config and two 3D printed spacers. Guide and all files available here:
Every time you throw out a device or hire lawyers for divorce, it is "good" for the economy and makes us more "productive".
Our happiness, time and planet are not captured in how good the economy does. It prefers we are busy shoveling garbage than living life.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Our happiness, time and planet are not captured in how good the economy does. It prefers we are busy shoveling garbage than living life.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Every time you throw out a device or hire lawyers for divorce, it is "good" for the economy and makes us more "productive".
Our happiness, time and planet are not captured in how good the economy does. It prefers we are busy shoveling garbage than living life.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
Our happiness, time and planet are not captured in how good the economy does. It prefers we are busy shoveling garbage than living life.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...
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look at this sexy video
LOOK AT IT
then go look at the SEXIER WEBSITE
anyway i'm really proud of my team, we're fucking amazing 🤗
LOOK AT IT
then go look at the SEXIER WEBSITE
anyway i'm really proud of my team, we're fucking amazing 🤗
📣 INTRODUCING HOME ASSISTANT CONNECT ZBT-2 🥳
Designed by our friends at Nabu Casa, the successor to ZBT-1 is the best way to easily connect your Zigbee or Thread devices to Home Assistant. 💪🏻
Find where to get yours today ➡️ www.home-assistant.io/connect/zbt-...
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
Designed by our friends at Nabu Casa, the successor to ZBT-1 is the best way to easily connect your Zigbee or Thread devices to Home Assistant. 💪🏻
Find where to get yours today ➡️ www.home-assistant.io/connect/zbt-...
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
look at this sexy video
LOOK AT IT
then go look at the SEXIER WEBSITE
anyway i'm really proud of my team, we're fucking amazing 🤗
LOOK AT IT
then go look at the SEXIER WEBSITE
anyway i'm really proud of my team, we're fucking amazing 🤗