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

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 😂

4yo: "Hey, this is the box of a Nabu" #voice-pe #homeassistant

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!

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:

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

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!

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..." 😂😅

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 :)

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

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...

‼️ 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

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...

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

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 😉