Paulus Schoutsen

🔥 New video!! 🔥

I made a SMART HOME CONTROL PANEL using a CHEAP YELLOW DISPLAY! (Full Guide)

👉https://youtu.be/x5fd6wm8f14👈

Hello Denmark! 👋🇩🇰

All your smart home data — on one sleek ePaper display🤖🏠

Techiesms uses multiple Seeed Home Assistant–ready devices + @home-assistant.io to control lights, track temp & humidity, weather & time — all on a sleek 7.5” E-Paper display powered by XIAO ESP32C3.

👀Link in the comment!

🏠 Home Assistant 2025.8 is here! The summer ☀️ of AI ✨

📢 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08...

AI Tasks unlock new powers 🤖, lightning-fast streaming TTS 🔊, easier control of individual light group members 💡, weekday time triggers 📅, and a brand-new energy flow chart ⚡️

#HomeAssistant

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy

Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to…

One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon Ghost 6.0 adds social web-focused features.

this is the future www.theverge.com/news/718286/...

Trying out #HomeAssistant 's speech-to-phrase voice pipeline, and actually getting usable results running locally on a raspberry pi. Which is pretty insane given it's competing with dedicated GPUs or cloud infrastructure.

Always go local.

Are you as excited as I am? Because… we’re hiring! 🤙

At the Product & Design team, we’re currently looking for:
🧠 2x Senior UX Designers jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoun...
🚀 2x Senior Product Managers jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoun...

so excited for this - if you use Z-Wave in Home Assistant, you definitely want to catch this live stream 👇🏼

It’s going to be huge!

The Open Home Foundation says: throw your Ring into the volcano!

Shelly joins Works with Home Assistant With a great selection of switches and relays built for Z-Wave.

July has been jam packed with new additions to the WWHA program - for this month's final addition, Shelly is joining! 🥳

They certified Z-Wave devices like their retrofit smart switches & relays, turning dumb devices into smart ones. 🙌🏻

Check out the blog for more details 👇🏼

#SmartHome

Just about finished with the Home Assistant code requirement checklist for my GE integration

Just gotta publish my Python library and I should just about be ready to put up the pull request to the project ^^

ZWA members Peter Zsak, Smartopert, and Tamás Lángh, Yabune Solution, hosted Smart Home Beach - a#ZWave device testing event at Hotel Annabella in Hungary. A total of 48 attendees joined to review the test results and chat with the experts. Congrats for such a successful event!

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

I just added to my #HomeAssistant a remote ESP32 that connects home using ESPHome's WireGuard component. Works flawlessly, even over the air updates. #ESPHome is really seriously cool stuff!

Tell us your Home Assistant story! For the 12th Anniversary of Home Assistant, we'd love to highlight community stories about how Home Assistant helps you and learn about any inspirational projects out there in the wild. 🥰 If selected, your story will be published in this year's anniversary blog post - submitting your story gives us implicit permission to share it publicly. Due to time constraints, we won't be able to notify community members if their submission is selected - let it be a surprise. 😉 This Form will close on August 11th so we can review the submissions. We sincerely appreciate the time you take to submit your story to us. 🙏🏻

In September, we're celebrating our 12th Birthday! This year, we're doing something new - we want to share YOUR stories. 👏🏻

Does Home Assistant help you in unexpected ways? Do you know of or have projects that inspire others? Fill out this Form and tell us about it! 👇🏼

#SmartHome #HomeAutomation

A TRMNL e-ink display with a wood-look frame. The display shows a dashboard captured from Home Assistant that displays all the moisture levels of my plants, both indoor and outdoor. Text displayed in the dashboard is as follows: Indoor plants Alocasia 28% Begonia 26% Peperomia 26% Scindapsus 26% Strelitzia 21% Alocasia Zebri... 23% Araucaria 53 % Maranta 22% Phlebodium 19% Spathiphyllum 31% Zamioculcas 23% Outdoor plants Olea 16% Campanula 47% Lavandula 21% Mandevilla 27% Mixed Pot 17%

The first time I’ve hooked up my @usetrmnl.com to @home-assistant.io!

What you’re seeing is a screenshot of my HA dashboard displaying the current soil moisture levels of my plants, captured using @paulusschoutsen.nl‘s Puppeteer add-on. The TRMNL displays the screenshot using the Alias plugin.

🚂 I just built the world’s first Matter-secured toy train 😇
You can control the toy train - IoTrain - from any ecosystem that supports Matter, for example, Home Assistant, Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, IKEA, Bosch, …
It is open, secure, private (depending on the ecosystem :D ), and cross-platform.

Pretty proud of this project, Bluetooth temp probe for smoking meat. I setup a ESP32 device running esphome. Then configured a home assistant plugin to discover the BLE probe and boom! 100% local with no cloud 3rd party but also now smart device

✨ What's new in Home Assistant? ✨
2025.7 was filled with so many good things we're bringing you 3 feature highlight videos this month! 🎉

Here's Chapter 1 - Assist asks the questions!

Find the blueprint & what else is new this release on our blog 👉🏻 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07...

#SmartHome

I'm not saying that you shouldn't use Ring specifically. I'm saying you shouldn't use *any* surveillance-like tech that allows external access to what it records.

ESPHome 2025.7.0 - 16th July 2025 Changelog for ESPHome 2025.7.0.

The latest ESPHome release is seriously good. The team just keeps delivering:

- 📡 LoRa support
- 🤹 ‍Allow ESPHome to represent multiple devices in Home Assistant
- 📝 Use jinja2 templates in substitutions
- 📉 Many memory usage reductions
- 📈 Many performance optimizations

Claude Code

Asked my son to integrate Home Assistant into his vibe coding. Now his pong game bounces around the logo and every bounce changes the light 🤩

It's great having Home Assistant and open air quality monitors/sensors in the home (in my case, Aquara and AirGradient). Can you guess when our A/C was back in action?

The real pirates were the friends we made along the way… to centralizing internet infrastructure so much that one company (the one that fought tooth and claw to keep hate sites online) can control what an entire country sees online.

Zooz joins Works with Home Assistant With a big selection of Z-Wave devices, which support Long-Range in select regions, opening up a lot of new options for your smart home.

We have another addition to our Works with Home Assistant program to share - Zooz! 🎉

They bring an awesome selection of device types and certified the first Z-Wave devices in the program this year. 👏🏻 Learn more about what devices they certified in the latest blog 👇🏼

#HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation