TheFes
@thefes.casa
Dad, Smart Home Enthousiast, Dutch language leader for Home Assistant, dislikes slugs in the vegetable garden
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It's beta week! The last Home Assistant beta of 2025 starts Wednesday.
Santa might have snuck some gifts into this one to close out the year 🎄
Not gonna lie, I can't wait for you all to see what's coming.
Any guesses on what Santa brought? 🎅
Santa might have snuck some gifts into this one to close out the year 🎄
Not gonna lie, I can't wait for you all to see what's coming.
Any guesses on what Santa brought? 🎅
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It's beta week! The last Home Assistant beta of 2025 starts Wednesday.
Santa might have snuck some gifts into this one to close out the year 🎄
Not gonna lie, I can't wait for you all to see what's coming.
Any guesses on what Santa brought? 🎅
Santa might have snuck some gifts into this one to close out the year 🎄
Not gonna lie, I can't wait for you all to see what's coming.
Any guesses on what Santa brought? 🎅
Last weeks I've been working on some Home Assistant automation blueprints to work with a Telegram bot.
There is a blueprint for alerts, for /commands to be used in the chat, and to send Assist commands in the bot.
More info: github.com/TheFes/ha-bl...
There is a blueprint for alerts, for /commands to be used in the chat, and to send Assist commands in the bot.
More info: github.com/TheFes/ha-bl...
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Last weeks I've been working on some Home Assistant automation blueprints to work with a Telegram bot.
There is a blueprint for alerts, for /commands to be used in the chat, and to send Assist commands in the bot.
More info: github.com/TheFes/ha-bl...
There is a blueprint for alerts, for /commands to be used in the chat, and to send Assist commands in the bot.
More info: github.com/TheFes/ha-bl...
A new Home Assistant beta is released and to try out some of the new functions I created a new blueprint. It allows you to set reminders using voice, which will be sent out to the person you specify. It uses a script which is the tool used by the LLM, and an automation to actually send the reminder.
March 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A new Home Assistant beta is released and to try out some of the new functions I created a new blueprint. It allows you to set reminders using voice, which will be sent out to the person you specify. It uses a script which is the tool used by the LLM, and an automation to actually send the reminder.
The last week I've been busy creating #homeassistant blueprints for voice commands. Right now my new Github repo has blueprints for 🌦 weather forecasts (both local and LLM), 📅 calendar entries (local and LLM) and list ✅ todo items (only local). more to come! 💙https://github.com/TheFes/ha-blueprints
GitHub - TheFes/ha-blueprints: Home Assistant Blueprints for (voice) commands
Home Assistant Blueprints for (voice) commands. Contribute to TheFes/ha-blueprints development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The last week I've been busy creating #homeassistant blueprints for voice commands. Right now my new Github repo has blueprints for 🌦 weather forecasts (both local and LLM), 📅 calendar entries (local and LLM) and list ✅ todo items (only local). more to come! 💙https://github.com/TheFes/ha-blueprints
Last week I thought, let's post the script I created to use voice to play music in Home Assistant on the Music Assistant Discord. Now I'm a maintainer of the Voice Support repo (github.com/music-assist...) and together with some other guys already posted 2 blueprints there.
GitHub - music-assistant/voice-support: Music Assistant blueprints
Music Assistant blueprints . Contribute to music-assistant/voice-support development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Last week I thought, let's post the script I created to use voice to play music in Home Assistant on the Music Assistant Discord. Now I'm a maintainer of the Voice Support repo (github.com/music-assist...) and together with some other guys already posted 2 blueprints there.
So, there I was participating in the 2016 Olympics.. Just after finishing the 4x100 relay which we lost from team Toad, my phone started buzzing.
When I took it out of my pocket I had to confirm I was okay, it apparently detected a car crash 😂
When I took it out of my pocket I had to confirm I was okay, it apparently detected a car crash 😂
December 30, 2024 at 8:55 AM
So, there I was participating in the 2016 Olympics.. Just after finishing the 4x100 relay which we lost from team Toad, my phone started buzzing.
When I took it out of my pocket I had to confirm I was okay, it apparently detected a car crash 😂
When I took it out of my pocket I had to confirm I was okay, it apparently detected a car crash 😂
December 29, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Hooray 🎉 It's the last Wednesday of the month, which means Home Assistant Beta Week begins. 🤨
Uhm.. well, at least half of the previous sentence is true. 😅 If you join the beta now, you can already have a smart home of 2025 today!
Uhm.. well, at least half of the previous sentence is true. 😅 If you join the beta now, you can already have a smart home of 2025 today!
December 23, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Hooray 🎉 It's the last Wednesday of the month, which means Home Assistant Beta Week begins. 🤨
Uhm.. well, at least half of the previous sentence is true. 😅 If you join the beta now, you can already have a smart home of 2025 today!
Uhm.. well, at least half of the previous sentence is true. 😅 If you join the beta now, you can already have a smart home of 2025 today!
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It's here! 🎉
We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌
Find more details here: www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
Catch up on the news here:
We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌
Find more details here: www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
Catch up on the news here:
The era of open voice assistants has arrived
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the best way to get started with our open and privacy-focused voice assistant.
www.home-assistant.io
December 19, 2024 at 11:50 PM
It's here! 🎉
We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌
Find more details here: www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
Catch up on the news here:
We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌
Find more details here: www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
Catch up on the news here:
Using a Voice PE and a Grandstream HT801 I can initiate a call on a phone from 1955 using voice command! Ain't that cool!
(video in Dutch)
#homeassistant #voice-pe #grandstream
(video in Dutch)
#homeassistant #voice-pe #grandstream
December 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Using a Voice PE and a Grandstream HT801 I can initiate a call on a phone from 1955 using voice command! Ain't that cool!
(video in Dutch)
#homeassistant #voice-pe #grandstream
(video in Dutch)
#homeassistant #voice-pe #grandstream
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It’s the season of giving. May I recommend to donate to your favorite open source maintainer.
For Home Assistant ecosystem: check docs for your favorite integration, look who maintains it, hit up their GitHub sponsors!
For Home Assistant ecosystem: check docs for your favorite integration, look who maintains it, hit up their GitHub sponsors!
December 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
It’s the season of giving. May I recommend to donate to your favorite open source maintainer.
For Home Assistant ecosystem: check docs for your favorite integration, look who maintains it, hit up their GitHub sponsors!
For Home Assistant ecosystem: check docs for your favorite integration, look who maintains it, hit up their GitHub sponsors!
Hooray! 🎉 The operation was a success. 👨⚕️ My HP ProDesk Proxmox server now runs on 32GB of memory! Immediately doubled the memory assigned to the Home Assistant VM 👍
December 6, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Hooray! 🎉 The operation was a success. 👨⚕️ My HP ProDesk Proxmox server now runs on 32GB of memory! Immediately doubled the memory assigned to the Home Assistant VM 👍
For my 5yo I made an Ulanzi clock show the current time, but also where we are (downstairs/upstairs, indicated above or below the icon) and how long it'll be before it's time to start the day. When he noticed I changed when this mode was activated, he sighed: "you changed something.. again..." 😂😅
December 6, 2024 at 12:13 PM
For my 5yo I made an Ulanzi clock show the current time, but also where we are (downstairs/upstairs, indicated above or below the icon) and how long it'll be before it's time to start the day. When he noticed I changed when this mode was activated, he sighed: "you changed something.. again..." 😂😅
Apparently I've been a good boy this year, and Sinterklaas was so kind to gift me 2x16GB memory for my new Proxmox server. So I'll be playing operations later today :)
December 6, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Apparently I've been a good boy this year, and Sinterklaas was so kind to gift me 2x16GB memory for my new Proxmox server. So I'll be playing operations later today :)
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Home Assistant 2024.12 🎉
✨ Preview your scenes without activating them
🎤 Enjoy a faster voice experience with LLM-based fallback
🔧 A revamped Integration Quality Scale
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12...
Happy holidays and see you in 2025! 🎄
#HomeAssistant
✨ Preview your scenes without activating them
🎤 Enjoy a faster voice experience with LLM-based fallback
🔧 A revamped Integration Quality Scale
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12...
Happy holidays and see you in 2025! 🎄
#HomeAssistant
2024.12: Scene you in 2025! 🎄
Holidays are coming, time for the last release of the year! View your scenes without immediately activating them. Let your voice assistant fall back to an LLM-based agent, and enjoy a faster voice ...
www.home-assistant.io
December 4, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Home Assistant 2024.12 🎉
✨ Preview your scenes without activating them
🎤 Enjoy a faster voice experience with LLM-based fallback
🔧 A revamped Integration Quality Scale
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12...
Happy holidays and see you in 2025! 🎄
#HomeAssistant
✨ Preview your scenes without activating them
🎤 Enjoy a faster voice experience with LLM-based fallback
🔧 A revamped Integration Quality Scale
www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12...
Happy holidays and see you in 2025! 🎄
#HomeAssistant
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The Open Home Foundation have received a $25,000 donation from DuckDuckGo to support our cause of building a privacy focused and local smart home 💪 spreadprivacy.com/2024-duckduc...
2024 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations
DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2024 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.
spreadprivacy.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:08 PM
The Open Home Foundation have received a $25,000 donation from DuckDuckGo to support our cause of building a privacy focused and local smart home 💪 spreadprivacy.com/2024-duckduc...
Reposted by TheFes
‼️ It's time for Month of "What the heck!?"!
WTH is WTH? Every 2 years we open up the forums to any issue, suggestion, or annoyance you have with Home Assistant. 👂🏻
👇🏼 for more details from Frenck on how to share your WTH moment with us. 😌
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
WTH is WTH? Every 2 years we open up the forums to any issue, suggestion, or annoyance you have with Home Assistant. 👂🏻
👇🏼 for more details from Frenck on how to share your WTH moment with us. 😌
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
The month of 'What the Heck?!' 2024
Ever felt that 'What the heck Home Assistant?!' moment? This month, we would like to learn about your 'what the heck?!' moments...
www.home-assistant.io
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
‼️ It's time for Month of "What the heck!?"!
WTH is WTH? Every 2 years we open up the forums to any issue, suggestion, or annoyance you have with Home Assistant. 👂🏻
👇🏼 for more details from Frenck on how to share your WTH moment with us. 😌
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
WTH is WTH? Every 2 years we open up the forums to any issue, suggestion, or annoyance you have with Home Assistant. 👂🏻
👇🏼 for more details from Frenck on how to share your WTH moment with us. 😌
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
The HA 2024.12 beta brings a much requested feature to voice commands, fallback to an LLM voice assistant 🎉 You can now set an LLM to first try if it works completely local using the built in sentences, if that doesn't work it will use the LLM.
Beta release notes rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11...
Beta release notes rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11...
2024.12: Beta release notes
Beta release notes for Home Assistant 2024.12
rc.home-assistant.io
November 28, 2024 at 9:29 AM
The HA 2024.12 beta brings a much requested feature to voice commands, fallback to an LLM voice assistant 🎉 You can now set an LLM to first try if it works completely local using the built in sentences, if that doesn't work it will use the LLM.
Beta release notes rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11...
Beta release notes rc.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11...
Hooray 🎉 It's the last Wednesday of the month, which means Home Assistant Beta Week begins.
Your chance to test the new features to be added in the next release. Curious to see what's new this time!
Be sure to join the Discord #beta channel in case you install it home-assistant.io/join-chat
Your chance to test the new features to be added in the next release. Curious to see what's new this time!
Be sure to join the Discord #beta channel in case you install it home-assistant.io/join-chat
Join the Home Assistant Discord Server!
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. | 131944 members
www.home-assistant.io
November 27, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Hooray 🎉 It's the last Wednesday of the month, which means Home Assistant Beta Week begins.
Your chance to test the new features to be added in the next release. Curious to see what's new this time!
Be sure to join the Discord #beta channel in case you install it home-assistant.io/join-chat
Your chance to test the new features to be added in the next release. Curious to see what's new this time!
Be sure to join the Discord #beta channel in case you install it home-assistant.io/join-chat
Here's my new home for my Home Assistant server, a refurbished HP ProDesk 600 G3. 🥳
HAOS is running in a Proxmox virtual machine, with enough power left to also run a small webserver. Hopefully Sinterklaas will have a memory upgrade ready for me 😊
Xiaomi Magic Cube for scale 😉
HAOS is running in a Proxmox virtual machine, with enough power left to also run a small webserver. Hopefully Sinterklaas will have a memory upgrade ready for me 😊
Xiaomi Magic Cube for scale 😉
November 26, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Here's my new home for my Home Assistant server, a refurbished HP ProDesk 600 G3. 🥳
HAOS is running in a Proxmox virtual machine, with enough power left to also run a small webserver. Hopefully Sinterklaas will have a memory upgrade ready for me 😊
Xiaomi Magic Cube for scale 😉
HAOS is running in a Proxmox virtual machine, with enough power left to also run a small webserver. Hopefully Sinterklaas will have a memory upgrade ready for me 😊
Xiaomi Magic Cube for scale 😉