Matthias de Baat

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At the Open Home Foundation, we stand for privacy, choice, and sustainability in smart homes. We’re the non-profit behind Home Assistant, ESPHome, Music Assistant, and many more amazing open source projects.

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

At the Product & Design team, we’re currently looking for:
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Should be seamless, but make sure you made a backup.

Thats not a great start. What kind of devices, and what doesn’t work?

I Zigbee what you are doing..!

It’s going to be huge!

Thanks! 🙏

If you’re interested, we’ve been sharing some ideas on the Home Assistant Discord about how to improve it further. Feel free to join the conversations in the project channel. (You will need to have picked a Dev or Designer role to see it.)

discord.com/channels/330...

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Gebruik Signal in Nederland explodeert: nu 25 keer hoger dan voor aantreden Trump Het gebruik van de versleutelde communicatiedienst Signal is in Nederland fors gegroeid sinds het aantreden van president Trump in januari. Het aantal nieuwe maandelijkse registraties bij Signal ligt ...

NIEUW: Het gebruik van Signal is in Nederland fors gegroeid sinds het aantreden van president Trump. Het aantal nieuwe maandelijkse registraties is nu meer dan 25 keer hoger dan begin januari. Nederland staat met ruim 2 mln gebruikers zelfs in de top-5 wereldwijd:

www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/g...

I have the one and only 24k gold Home Assistant Voice PE @home-assistant.io

Screenshot of my weather station in Home Assistant thats shows a graph of a strong increase of temperature.

This morning at 07:00, I was shocked to see it was already 27°C outside. Turns out, my neighbors placed an AC outdoor unit right next to my weather station. 😅

Looks like I accidentally have a @home-assistant.io sensor now that detects when my neighbor turns on their AC.

🎉🎉🎉🎉

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We have several new job openings! 🥳 Do any of these sound like a fit? We'd love to hear from you - apply today! 👇🏼

🔹 Node.js Engineer
🔹 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
🔹 E-Commerce Operations Manager
🔹 Digital Marketing Manager
🔹 Market Researcher

Eens. Wij van WC-eend vinden @home-assistant.io ook een voorbeeld hoe gratis en open-source succesvol kan zijn zonder data te verzamelen.

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Ik zag dat CDA tegen de motie “committeren aan het verhogen van de defensie-uitgaven tot 3,5% van het bbp” heeft gestemd. Ik kon nergens vinden waarom en ben verrast, gezien CDA standpunt over defensie. Kan je toelichten waarom?

www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...

You could try to add your first name as subdomain “@scott.jenson.org”

Apple be like: "I fixed Apple Intelligence, by hiding the text."

Screenshot of the new Apple design language

It’s a good thing Apple made Siri able to read your texts out loud, since reading seems to be out of the question

Good question! We should make it at least a yearly thing.

Home Assistant community in a pub

Home Assistant Community Day is on! Awesome bunch of people and great beers.
We should do this more often.
#homeassistant #hacd2025

Me in a full train where people are standing

On my way to the Home Assistant Community Day in Utrecht, Netherlands. Judging by how full the train is, it’s going to be a busy and fun event! 🤣
#homeassistant #hacd2025

Utrecht meetup · Luma 🇳🇱 Home Assistant Community Day – Utrecht! Join Joost, Ed, Frenck & Matthias for the Home Assistant meetup of the year! 📍 Location: Brothers in Law…

🎉 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?

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#HomeAssistant #MeetUp #SmartHome

Agreed, "Home Assistant" is the best. Sometimes we need to be a bit more specific. For example when you have multiple "Home Assistants".

In many cases, we can simply refer to it as "Home Assistant." However, sometimes additional context is needed. In those situations, the name should be consistent, for both the admins who maintain it and the secondary users who install the app.

He @home-assistant.io peeps!

Is it:
A. Home Assistant instance
B. Home Assistant system
C. Home Assistant server

Or something else? Right now we're using all options.

Utrecht meetup · Luma Join Joost & Ed for the Home Assistant Community Day meetup in Utrecht! Location & time still TBD :) We already reached 50 guests, but please sign up for the…

🚨 De Home Assistant Community Day in Utrecht was in no-time vol!

We zoeken nu een grotere locatie voor 150+ mensen op 24 mei—denk aan een techhub, theater of gezellige bedrijfsruimte.

📅 Event info: lu.ma/e2wyv8k0
📩 Tips? Laat van je horen 🙏

#HomeAssistant #CommunityDay #Utrecht #Meetup

The macOS app got webcam and microphone sensors. I’m using these to know if I’m in a call.