The Jen-era of Hot Girl Vergecast Summer has begun! Be sure to listen/watch my first episode, where I dive into the story of how one of its customers brought smart home company @insteon.bsky.social back from the brink. #smarthome www.theverge.com/podcast/7576...

I’m liking the updated @home-assistant.io Areas card. Currently doing some side by side testing with my current lighting group cards. Can fit a lot of info in little space o the Areas card.

Google is raising the price of Nest Aware subscriptions again

Things you love to see!

Good lord it’s ugly. Then again, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an attractive bulb camera…

Once again, why is blink still its own brand? Amazon doesn’t need two camera brands. Take blink’s great low-power silicon technology and put it in ring cameras!

Sometimes its the small #automations that can make you proud of your #smarthome Here @automatedhouse.bsky.social has automated his office blind with @home-assistant.io

There's always a top #smarthomefail and this one from @automatedhouse.bsky.social was a real pickle 😆

Thanks to @philhawthorne.com and Rohan for having me on the @home-assistant.io podcast! #smarthome

When my phone is in bedtime mode Google Assistant was smart enough not to talk out loud to me when I tried to set an alarm, but Google Gemini is not. I look forward to the other unasked for "improvements" in my experience.

Look y'all. Lutron now publishes their end of life plans for their connected products! I love Lutron so much. assets.lutron.com/a/documents/...

Home Assistant has started fixing one of my top complaints for new users: the default dashboards. Looking forward to seeing how the new Areas dashboard evolves between experimental phase and final release.

Got my ECOVACS X8 Pro Omni updated to Matter and added to Apple Home, SmartThings and @home-assistant.io This is the first Matter device I’ve tested that has MORE features in Apple Home than Home Assistant. Apple lets you choose the rooms to clean and shows current room when cleaning. #smarthome

Can you tell when I did my @home-assistant.io Yellow CM4 to CM5 upgrade? Went from 2GB RAM to 8 GB RAM. #smarthome #homeassistant

Updating my HA Yellow from CM4 to CM5 did not go well 😅 Had to figure out rpiboot, running Terminal in Rosetta mode, wtf GIT cloning and Homebrew are, which took an hour. After that, things went smoothly until booting back up and ZHA tried to start up. Still left with all 50 Zigbee devices offline

Congrats to the @home-assistant.io team! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/03...

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.𝟯 🎉 ✔️ Dashboard view headers ✔️ Tons of tile card improvements ✔️ Better map clustering ✔️ Assist now streams responses ✔️ Integrating SmartThings is smoother than ever! Check out what’s new! 👇 🔗 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/03... #HomeAssistant

As a strong proponent of using @home-assistant.io on “easy mode”, I had to put aside my no-YAML rule and tinker with the new 2025.3 header. #smarthome

Need a smarter way to enter your home? Our latest opportunity features a smart door lock and an accompanying mobile app from @kwikset.bsky.social! To learn more and apply, click here: bit.ly/4km2F4v #newbetatest #testing #smarthome #smartdoorlock #keyless

$138-160 for a smart shade with a solar panel is a killer deal #smarthome

Bring on ALL the affordable Thread sensors. And hopefully Thread 1.4…

Really tired of feeling like things can’t get crazier and then the next day they do…

I wrote about the companies behind the big smart home platforms making changes to please governments. They host your most private data, and you’re not their priority.

This looks excellent 😍 Taking the Echo Hub smart home UI to more devices is a great choice. #smarthome

SmartThings’ updated their personal access token (PAT) policy in January to cap them to 24 hours. This broke the @home-assistant.io integration. The two worked together on a new integration that uses Oauth. It goes live next month with HA 2025.3. #SmartHome community.smartthings.com/t/new-integr...

Leviton has an interesting new modular switch/receptacle concept called Decora Evolve. The bottom 2/3 of the device is a module that can be swapped, including smart switches and dimmers that support Matter. New builds only, though. #SmartHome leviton.com/products/res...

As a user of the Aqara G4, I can confidently say a doorbell wide enough to charge via MagSafe is going to be FUGLY. Ain’t no way Apple does it. #Smarthome

Give me an option to pay $5/month for no Alexa ads or nagging and I’m in! #smarthome

Hey @home-assistant.io when can we get a Thread network topology map like we have for Zigbee?

It’s almost like they’re clearing them out for a new model…

Nice, more Matter over Thread dimmer switches. This one from Eve looks nice.

Found a mint Harmony Elite kit for $100 on FB marketplace. Good start to the weekend! #smarthome

These Jasco Enbrighten zigbee dimmers are 💩 They will randomly go offline and then can’t even be used manually. That’s the whole point of a physical smart dimmer! Have to cycle the breaker to restore any type of control. #smarthome

But can it run @home-assistant.io?

I’ve setup my first Matter 1.3 certified device, the Aqara H2 switch. 1.3 means it has power monitoring. I’ve added it to Apple Home, SmartThings and Home Assistant via Multi Admin. Only @home-assistant.io supports the power monitor… #Smarthome #homeassistant

There is a new undercurrent of fear and aggression in Trump 2.0 caused by Elon and DOGE but the essential nature of Trump 1.0 is still there: these dummies don’t think anything through www.theverge.com/news/608441/...

Are you aware that your IoT devices will eventually lose their software support and become a zombie? If not, you're not alone. @consumerreports.org found that 43% of consumers who purchased a smart device don't realize that it will one day lose support.

This could be interesting…

They’re just F’ing with us now, right?

The Home Assistant community knows its crap. www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...

SwitchBot has updated their new air purifiers to have direct Matter integration (no hub needed). Good news: it integrates both air purifier as % and modes and air sensor Bad news: no led light integratation and air sensor is only extremely poor to good states. #smarthome #homeassistant

Bet you weren't expecting a new episode of Home: On this morning! And yet here we are... www.thedigitalmediazone.com/home-on-159/ #smarthome #podcast

So college students only? Or is that too OG?

Solar panel on the left shade seems to be working! Time to order the usb-c extension cable for the other. #smarthome #homeassistant #homedecor

Time for an upgrade! 💻 My HA Yellow has been chugging along happily for a couple years. But now that it’s at 250+ devices and 100+ automatons, RAM utilization is a little high for comfort. I’ll go from RPi CM4 2GB RAM to RPi CM5 8GB RAM. Wish me luck!😅 #smarthome #homeassistant #raspberrypi

Did a bit early spring cleaning and gave away 30+ smart home devices to people. Now my spares cabinet is ready for 2025.

It’s amazing how much quicker this site loads compared to Threads…

Today I learned: 1) Matter supports battery type data 2) @home-assistant.io now shows it 3) Aqara supports it via their Matter bridge Good job team! #smarthome #homeassistant

Why does Bluesky think I speak German? Still seeing TONS of posts in German on my feed.