Tickets on sale NOW! 🎟️ Your chance to join our live audience has arrived! Be part of the inspiring conversations, lively debate, and creative energy that flows when Open Home advocates get together! #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

This week Cloudflare shamelessly cloned and released the product of one of their primary competitors. I'm beginning to wonder - if AI can rewrite software from scratch, without using any of the original code, do software licenses actually mean anything anymore? john.onolan.org/open-source-...

new smart tv horror just dropped www.theverge.com/column/88524...

The Open Home Foundation team is coming to Asia and wants to meet you! Join me and others in Shenzen 🇨🇳 on March 14 luma.com/gcseadio Join me and others in Tokyo 🇯🇵 on March 17 luma.com/5bdxrm5l

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can you start posting here too? I shouldn't have to go to X to learn about the cities preparedness for the blizzard.

We've been talking about it for forever, but now the wait is over: the @openhomefoundation.org merch store is here! 🥳 It's a great way to support our mission and show what you stand for with high-quality swag. 👕 Read on to learn what else is in store 👇🏼 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

Here’s @jp2e.bsky.social pointing out the obvious: Ring’s still partnered with Axon, which is still partnered with ICE www.theverge.com/report/87932...

Public pressure works. If we, as consumers, are loud enough of were we draw the line, we can influence companies. Keep repeating: no to surveillance and tracking, yes to privacy and local control www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

Woohoo it is happening. WebSerial coming to @webdevs.firefox.com ?!? 🎉🎉 bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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There's a community meetup in Utrecht, the NL tomorrow evening - and we just removed the cap for registration! 🥳 If you're in the area and interested in meeting a group of us who work on Home Assistant and other foundation projects, register NOW 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Open Home Foundation meetup in Utrecht has extra spots available ! Stop by and meet the team. luma.com/wgktnnxp?tk=...

We've got a new batch of Verge stories that are completely free to read for today only. First up, from @jp2e.bsky.social: After years of trying to switch to Home Assistant, Claude Code got me (mostly) there in one afternoon.

Today at @github.com we're rolling out a new issues search in preview. In internal testing, the average list position has improved by 39% with the new semantic search in addition to returning more matching results! Check out this side-by-side comparison in this popular repo from Home Assistant:

Attending FOSDEM this weekend. If you are interested in talking open source, smart home or how to build sustainable organizations that create human-centered technology, hit me up!

"since I unleashed Claude in my smart home via Home Assistant, I can finally see a future where everything just works, and I want that future now"

I used Claude to vibe-code my wildly overcomplicated smart home

Will you be at #FOSDEM or in Brussels next week and want to meet some of the team? 👀 We have a few more spots open to register for the event at Little Delirium on Jan 31! If you haven't registered yet, do so before space runs out 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #OpenSource

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.

This article has been bouncing around in my head for the past couple of months, but I finally sat down and wrote it.

Time to say farewell 2025 and hello 2026. 😌 It's because of you, the community, that we were able to make 2025 our best year yet. 👏🏻 From all of us, to you and yours: here's to all the blessings we hope 2026 will bring. 🥂 #HappyNewYear #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

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

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.

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 🔗🧵

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:

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

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!

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.

Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers — again

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!)

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

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.

The migration from SkyConnect to Home Assistant Connect (ZBT-2) with ZHA was super seamless. Took less than 30 seconds! #homeassistant #zbt2

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

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

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...

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 🤗

📣 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

Today we're publishing our list of recommendations on how to build long-lived IoT devices. We're trying to address the factors that lead to your smart thermostat losing functionality or even dying altogether when the manufacturer decides to stop supporting it. It doesn't have to be this way.

Inside the Open Home: @rohank9 and I chat with @http://mrdarrengriffin.com, the web dev behind the @home-assistant.io websites! He talks automation, easter eggs & supporting the Open Home Foundation. Watch now 👉 https://youtu.be/GcCGxWKKaOk