Big news from today's @homeassistant live stream: April 8 is the date of this year’s State of the Open Home — an annual event where we highlight what’s new and what’s coming next for our projects.
Mark your calendars – more details coming soon!
It's important that the Works with Home Assistant program is always transparent. So today, we're announcing the formal removal of HELTUN from the program.
Read why we made this decision on our blog 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/01/13/partner-update-heltun/
It's important that the Works with Home Assistant program is always transparent. So today, we're announcing the formal removal of HELTUN from the program.
Read why we made this decision on our blog 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/01/13/partner-update-heltun/
Home Assistant 2026.1 🥂
Home dashboard improvements 🏡, easier navigation to protocol dashboards 🔎, and ESPHome action responses are just a few of the small but important changes this release. 😎
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Release #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/01/07/release-20261
Is #Zigbee still a thing?
If I was to invest in #HomeAutomation (thermostat and sockets mainly), which protocol should I choose?
It should be local only ( #HomeAssistant) and work even when the server is down.
Big news from today's @homeassistant live stream: April 8 is the date of this year’s State of the Open Home — an annual event where we highlight what’s new and what’s coming next for our projects.
Mark your calendars – more details coming soon!
Home Assistant 2026.1 🥂
Home dashboard improvements 🏡, easier navigation to protocol dashboards 🔎, and ESPHome action responses are just a few of the small but important changes this release. 😎
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Release #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/01/07/release-20261
Hacking Washing Machines (39C3) [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
#HackerNews #Hacking #Washing #Machines #39C3 #video #cybersecurity #techinnovation #homeautomation
We aren't vocal about the meetups hosted by the @openhomefoundation but we're changing that! Our new 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
Save your spot today, and subscribe to the Luma calendar to be notified when new events are created 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://luma.com/homeassistant
We aren't vocal about the meetups hosted by the @openhomefoundation but we're changing that! Our new 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
Save your spot today, and subscribe to the Luma calendar to be notified when new events are created 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://luma.com/homeassistant
Like any normal #homeautomation enthusiast I just happened to have an ESP32 and a 4 amp 5V power supply laying around. So I bought a couple more strands of WS2811 lights, flashed #WLED on it,and poof! second holiday tree is lit.
Here’s a hot tip from a pro like me to any of you amateurs out there. These ESP32s perform much better when you plug the +5V wire into the 5V pin and the ground into the GND pin. If you put the ground wire on one of the communication pins, they don’t work as well. 😛 Don’t get discouraged. One day you’ll be as smart as me.
Now to add it to #homeassistant …
Like any normal #homeautomation enthusiast I just happened to have an ESP32 and a 4 amp 5V power supply laying around. So I bought a couple more strands of WS2811 lights, flashed #WLED on it,and poof! second holiday tree is lit.
Here’s a hot tip from a pro like me to any of you amateurs out there. These ESP32s perform much better when you plug the +5V wire into the 5V pin and the ground into the GND pin. If you put the ground wire on one of the communication pins, they don’t work as well. 😛 Don’t get discouraged. One day you’ll be as smart as me.
Now to add it to #homeassistant …
Self-Host Weekly #148: Maintenance Mode
#MinIO alternatives, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Poznote - a lightweight note-taking app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-05/
#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #devops #sysadmin #privacy #security #homeautomation #app #apps #software #newsletter #fediverse
Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/
#HackerNews #Freeing #Xiaomi #Humidifier #Cloud #HomeAutomation #TechDIY #IoT
The Works with Home Assistant program has had quite the year – the biggest since we launched it in 2022! 🥳
Miranda looks back on an eventful 12 months & introduces something we're excited to share: a searchable list of certified devices. 👏🏻 Read the full recap 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12/09/wwha-2025-recap/
The Works with Home Assistant program has had quite the year – the biggest since we launched it in 2022! 🥳
Miranda looks back on an eventful 12 months & introduces something we're excited to share: a searchable list of certified devices. 👏🏻 Read the full recap 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12/09/wwha-2025-recap/
@james
Thanks, that's all very helpful.
I'm more paranoid than most about things having an "I'll work fine until out of warranty and then insist on connection" design.
But my paranoia about corporate abuse has been justified so far. If anything I underestimated the willingness of corporations to abuse their customers so long as it increases profits.
@dlakelan
Are there #HomeAutomation things that would best be considered and implemented during a home renovation rather than later?
At this weekend I finally established another network in my home — a ZigBee network. A looong time ago (in 2010 year) I touched the ZigBee networking in my university (ITMO, previously IFMO, in Saint-Petersburg) — these times it was a new technology, not used widely. And as a student I have some fun time playing with ZigBee main router, supplemental router and end-devices. You can view old photos and screenshots of old software on a my extremely old blog: http://h0rr0rr-drag0n.blogspot.com/2010/04/cc2530zdk.html (and read a blogpost, if you understand Russian).
It is kindly fascinating, that now, after 15 years, I can just buy some ZigBee-powered devices from AliExpress (using Black Friday discounts) and connect them to the network inside my house right in the way I did it in the university 15 years ago!
Sadly, although I bought native supported main router device, based on the EFR32MG2 with some software from Ember (EZSP v8) inside, the OpenHAB doesn't support this device natively — it supports it, but since my server is running NetBSD, I got problems with some bundled with OpenHAB things. Looks like some native libraries (rxtx-java) don't have bundled NetBSD versions. And the same library in the repository built for Java 8, not for Java 17.
So, I decided to use Zigbee2MQTT, not to build the necessary Java library myself. It was kinda scary — use program, which connects my ZigBee network via ZigBee USB-dongle to the MQTT server — which is written on JavaScript 
. Not on the C (as I can totally understand, for a such low-level program, operating with embedded devices) or at least on the C++/Perl/Python/whatever. But, looks like it works good enough, if I don't try to pair the device in wrong mode (my window sensors has two modes to pair them with network: first "common" mode causes zigbee2mqtt to silently crash and the second "compatible" mode works without problems).
And I could understand now, why people has so much problems with smart home security. Installed MQTT server mosquitto — it allows unauthenticated connections by default. Installed zigbee2mqtt — it allow connections to frontend without any password by default 
At least these two services don't each much memory: 1.2 Mb for Mosquitto and 75.6 Mb for ZigBee2MQTT.
For now, my ZigBee sensors works pretty well and robust, like these devices from university 15 years ago 
Self-Host Weekly #148: Maintenance Mode
#MinIO alternatives, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Poznote - a lightweight note-taking app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-05/
#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #devops #sysadmin #privacy #security #homeautomation #app #apps #software #newsletter #fediverse
