Quick spoiler for 2025.11... You know that feeling when you're building an automation and you have NO idea which "Motion Sensor" is which? Or how many lights you're actually about to control? No more guessing. 🎯 #HomeAssistant

That feeling when you're moving soon but don't have keys yet, so you just lie awake at 11pm browsing smart locks and camera specs instead. Just me? Wrote a blog post about the exciting agony of planning a smart home you can't touch yet 👇 frenck.dev/moving-to-a-... #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

Had a great time chatting with @heise.de at @github.com Universe about where @home-assistant.io is headed for the remainder of 2025! Thanks Daniel Ziegener for the interview. Always fun to share what we're building with the community! #HomeAssistant #GitHubUniverse #OpenHome #OpenSource

READ THIS THREAD! Nice one @emma.ly ❤️

I don't appreciate being reminded about the rapid passing of time... This screenshot (from the YouTube live stream of Home Assistant 2025.5 Release Party) feels applicable today. Pictured are Missy @adorablecyb.org, Paulus @paulusschoutsen.nl, and Frenck @frenck.social (role details in alt text)

Recorded an episode of the @github.com Podcast with @alacolombiadev.bsky.social at GitHub Universe! Talked about @home-assistant.io's journey to 21,000+ contributors and building the ultimate open smart home. It was awesome and can't wait for this to drop! 🎙️ #GitHubUniverse #HomeAssistant

Quick vlog time: Why I think Home Assistant should rename "add-ons" to "apps" 🔥 The problem: newcomers see Add-ons and Integrations and have no idea which one to use. The names don't explain the difference. Watch the full explanation (5 min) youtu.be/TwKOeZJyPas #HomeAssistant @home-assistant.io

Proud moment at GitHub Universe 2025! As a GitHub Star, I’ve got my own star on the Walk of Fame here at the venue. It’s pretty cool to see my name on the ground alongside fellow Stars! 🌟 #GitHubUniverse #GitHubStars #OpenSource

Immutable releases announced at GitHub Universe! Once tagged, releases can’t be changed. No more worrying about malicious actors swapping out assets or moving tags. Single-use version tags with signed attestations. This is the supply chain protection open source really needs 🔒 #GitHubUniverse

Hell yeah we are! 💪 This is a testament to our amazing community, building an amazing, open source, privacy aware home automation platform, powering millions of homes around the world. Big shout out to our amazing community. You all rock, I love you 🫶 #HomeAssistant #GitHubUniverse

Plan mode is coming to VSCode! Finally 🫶 #GitHubUniverse

Coming later this year, partners can provide agents. For example, using Claude directly in the GitHub interface, just like you can use and assign just like you can do with GitHub Copilot today. I love that they bring choice to the GitHub platform. #GitHubUniverse

Today GitHub announced Agent HQ; a single spot to manage your AI agents. GitHub has been using it themselves, making copilot their number one code contributor to their own code base. #GitHubUniverse

Boiler broke at home. No hot water. Family’s cold. 🥶 Me? 36,000 feet up, going 874 km/h ✈️ 😅 Currently debugging via airplane WiFi + @tailscale.com VPN + OpenTherm. The fact I can even TRY this from a plane is wild. We live in the future. 🚀 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Tailscale #VPN

“Future is Local” spotted at Prague Airport ✈️ Absolutely. Your smart home, your data, your control. All local. This is the way. 🏠 #HomeAssistant #LocalControl #FutureIsLocal

Choo choo! 🚂 Literally on a train right now heading to Prague to meet up with the whole Home Assistant crew from the Open Home Foundation. Team building time! See you soon, team! ✈️ #HomeAssistant #OpenHomeFoundation #TeamBuilding

Yeah, we're ending Yellow production 💛 It had an incredible run, but the market has naturally moved on. Green 💚 is now the go-to for getting started. If you've got a Yellow, don't worry. We'll keep supporting it just like we do with Blue. 💙

Trust me. I’m a smart home expert. #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Automations #TechHumor #Comedy

This week on the @home-assistant.io podcast, I sat down with Achim Haug of AirGradient to explore how a personal mission during Thailand’s burning season turned into a global open-source air quality solution 🌍🛠️ Full episode: https://youtu.be/q1skkqMJcX0

I’m not returning to live streams. New format: vlogs, my smart-home build, and “Ask Frenck: Unfiltered.” Watch the announcement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=idxA... #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #OpenHome

Finally! @github.com Actions supports YAML anchors after 4 years of requests. Catch: no merge keys. Can't compose configs with overrides. We migrated @home-assistant.io, but it is disappointing. After 4 years, they had time to do it right. 👉 frenck.dev/github-actio... #CICD #DevOps #YAML #GitHub

Enjoy the #HomeAssistant release! (Thanks for the meme @jlpouffier.fr 😆)

Selling my house 🏡 It’s loaded with smart home gear 🤖 Would you leave it for the buyer or take it with you? 🤔 What would you do? 👉 Watch the clip: www.youtube.com/shorts/bVneI... #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

Ever wanted to work on open source full-time? Come join me at the @openhomefoundation.org; we’ve got 5 new roles on @home-assistant.io. 👩‍💼 Program Manager 🐍 Python Engineers ✍️ Technical Writers 🌍 Remote. Open source, every day. Links in replies 👇 #HomeAssistant #OpenSource #SmartHome #Hiring #Jobs

Spotted at IFA: Reolink’s local Vision AI blew me away. Ask your camera what happened in the last 24h… and it just tells you. Soon, even without clouds. Just local AI smarts. Honestly, this changes everything 👀 🤯 #SmartHome #IFA2025 #Reolink #HomeAssistant #VisionAI #LocalFirst

Let’s be real… 🧠 ⚙️ The new Automation Sidebar in Home Assistant 2025.9 finally makes building automations feel a lot better. Curious how it’s working out for you 🫵 Are we heading in the right direction with the editor? 🤔 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Automations #OpenSource

Not just playing with smart homes, but also putting in the reps 💪 5 days a week at the gym. Consistency pays. What’s the one habit you’ve stuck with lately? 👇 #Fitness #Consistency #GymLife #Workout

🛠️ Just shipped Home Assistant 2025.9.4, the last patch in the 2025.9 series. Next week the beta for 2025.10 begins 😄 Have a great weekend and happy automating 🍻 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #OpenSource #Automation

Quick Typer release 0.18.0 (and 0.17.5) with compatibility for the latest Click just released 🐛 Thank you @oxykodit.bsky.social for the fast discovery, analysis, and fix! 🙌 github.com/fastapi/typer

Well… that escalated quickly 😅 Posted a little take on Samsung putting ads on fridges. Now the LinkedIn post is blowing up with 150+ comments and counting. Apparently I’m not the only one tired of tech going backwards. 📎 www.linkedin.com/posts/frenck... #Enshittification #SmartHome #Samsung

🚀 It’s about time! GitHub Actions now supports YAML anchors and non-public workflow templates 🎉 Been waiting for this for years — finally time to clean up and DRASTICALLY shorten all my workflows! 🛠️ Let the refactoring begin… 👉 github.blog/changelog/20... #GitHubActions #YAML #CI #DevOps

🗣️ “Ok Nabu… set sail for the kitchen, hoist the coffee machine ☕” It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day 🏴‍☠️ and my smart home thinks I’m having a stroke. 😆 Lights are flashing, the coffee’s not brewing, the robot vacuum yelled “Mutiny!” #TalkLikeAPirateDay #HomeAssistant #Arrrtomations #YAMLwalktheplank

📣 We’re giving away ONE general admission entry to #GitHubUniverse this year! 👉 US 18+. Ends October 5 2025. Enter here: https://gh.io/ticket-win 📋 Rules: https://gh.io/rules

It is also really fun to make! 😃

Samsung: “The future isn’t smart. It’s sponsored.” Samsung fridges now come with built-in ads. Progress and innovation… really? Fridge: “You’re out of milk.” Samsung: “Also, here’s an ad for milk.” Me: 😭 🔗 www.theverge.com/news/780757/... #SmartHome #PrivacyMatters #WhyCantWeHaveNiceThings

📱 Updated to iOS 26. Predictably, the first thing that jumps out is the whole Liquid Glass vibe. Jury’s still out… 🤔 #iOS26 #iPhone #Apple #LiquidGlass #FirstImpress

What he says 👇 #HomeAssistant

Hot damn, I haven’t been on social media for a few months and now need an hour to clean out all the spam groups I’ve been added to on X, and only on X. Talk about platform degradation… X marks the spot 🥲

Happy 12th birthday to us!! 🥳 Today we're celebrating the first PR made to the Home Assistant project by highlighting YOU, the community, and how the things you build keep this project growing. 😌 We may also have a couple of surprises for you! 👀 Read more 👇🏼

New @homeassistant.io podcast episode! 🎧 Rohan and I chat with Thomas about building an accessible smart home — from voice assistants to a ChatGPT-powered smart mirror! 💡🤖 Don’t miss this inspiring journey 👉 https://youtu.be/x_aN3eV9alQ #Accessibility #SmartHome

Been a bit quiet here… life got busy! Between wrapping up renovations, selling our house, buying a new place 🏡✨ and even de-smart-home-ifying the old one (is that even a word? 😅) there hasn’t been much time left for socials. Guess who’s back? 👋

"𝘏𝘦𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘬, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?" 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗜 𝗔𝗠! 👋 I have abandoned all social media for the past month or two. Why? There is so much happening in my life right now that I've honestly not been able to keep up with anything or anyone. Sorry! 🙏 So, how have you been?

Having a fun Sunday morning, with coffee ☕️ and code 🧑‍💻 Created support for the #HomeAssistant config helper VSCode extension to render Jinja templates if you hover over them with your mouse 🐭 🚂 Choo choo homie!

Arrived in Dublin! 🇮🇪☘️ Excited for this week of geeking and nerding out on smart home stuff 🤗😃

👻 Spook just got way smarter It now understands the powerful magic of templates in Home Assistant! 🧙‍♂️ Spook can raise repair issues if it spots unknown entities hiding inside your clever automations. Still testing… but it’s looking scary good 😊 Coming soon: spook.boo 👻 #HomeAssistant

More exciting updates for the Home Assistant Config Helper VSCode extension 🎉 Now, you can see entity details simply by hovering over an entity ID 🤩 #HomeAssistant #VSCode

Working on some updates to the Home Assistant Config Helper VSCode extensions for the past few weeks as it needed replacement of the YAML parser used; now that is done... I've added: Warnings for the use of entity IDs that don't exist in your instance 😎 #HomeAssistant #VSCode #YAML

The Home Assistant Community Day in Utrecht 🇳🇱 is a wrap! Pardon the language, but it was F-ing GREAT! 💥 Packed venue, amazing people, smart home nerding at its finest. 💡🏠 Let’s do this more often! #HADay2025 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #MeetUp #OpenHome

Had a very fun day at the Dutch @home-assistant.io Community Day. #HADay2025 @smarthomejunkie.net @frenck.social and others. Now it’s time for some dinner.

🎉 𝗟𝗔𝗔𝗧𝗦𝗧𝗘 𝗞𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗝𝗘𝗦! Morgen is de 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆 meetup in Utrecht! 🇳🇱 Kom gezellig borrelen 🍻 en kletsen over je slimme huis 🏠 Er zijn nog een paar plekjes vrij… kom je ook? 👉 lu.ma/e2wyv8k0 #HomeAssistant #MeetUp #SmartHome