Paulus Schoutsen

Preparing the Home Assistant 2026.11 beta right now and... wow. 4,858 merged pull requests. Every record we've ever set for a release is gone, by about a thousand PRs. Big new features, tons of fixes, and an insane amount of quality improvements. I'm not even kidding.

Thank you for the donation to the @openhomefoundation.org !!

With Arc dead, come to Firefox. Let's not give Chromium any more market share. A thriving web is a diverse one. If you want something really close to the Arc experience, check out Zen. zen-browser.app

oh shit! MAKE got 2025 talks edited and I didn't even realize. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ5X...

On November 7 we're hosting community day. In over 90 places world-wide we'll gather to discuss and celebrate all the cool stuff we're doing. I'm going to be at the one in NYC. See you there? luma.com/i8z9mmm7?tk=...

Our community showed up at IFA Berlin 💙 Eight volunteers joined our first-ever booth, sharing their setups and helping visitors discover the Open Home Foundation. Meet the people who made it happen 👇 www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/our-com...

Cleaned up the house, purging all the clouds. Will you follow?

Cleaned up the house, purging all the clouds. Will you follow? www.theverge.com/tech/1003936...

Cleaned up the house, purging all the clouds. Will you follow? www.theverge.com/tech/1003936...

Every single one of 21 tested vehicles sent data to a third-party domain over Wi-Fi. Over half contacted domains specializing in advertising, tracking, or analytics. These companies gather details about your vehicle or driving behavior to sell to insurance companies or target you with ads.

The smart home has reached a tipping point. Early Nest Thermostats, Belkin’s WeMo line, Logitech’s Pop buttons, and Bose’s SoundTouch speakers all lost their lifelines. While some were saved by local APIs and protocols, most are like the June Oven, destined to live out their days in a zombie state.

Had a blast at Open Home Foundation Summit. See @paulusschoutsen.nl giving one of his signature community welcome speeches, complete with Fuck Venture Capital money statement!

Next week, over 150 Open Home Foundation staff (paid + volunteers) will gather in Lisbon for the Open Home Foundation summit. Being an online community is awesome, but coming together to strategize and relax is equally important. If you want to meet us, join us Wednesday: luma.com/t13dc6er?tk=...

Home assistant 13 years old! 🎂 Happy birthday to us! Home Assistant is officially a teenager. 13 years old today 🥳🏠 Here’s to the teenage years! 🎉

At the Z-Wave Summit, #smarthome reviewer and expert Jennifer Pattison Tuohy will share insights from years of testing her home on nearly every major smart home protocol. Hear directly from the those living with and building today's smart home tech: z-wavealliance.org/eve/z-wave-f...

We're closing our merch store‼️ (temporarily) We're moving warehouses, and improving our systems. So the store's going to be unavailable for about two weeks, starting Sept 17. It would be very helpful if we had less stock to move between warehouses 👀 *cough*. store.openhomefoundation.org

We're at IFA to connect with our community and share our message. One hand embroidered piece of art at a time.

It's time for the August Newsletter 🎉 This month we sow the seeds, you grow the (open) home 🌱. We're talking about HAIR, the ESPHome Starter Kit and publishing our Home Assistant Survey dataset! Read on 👇 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/we-sow-the-s... #HomeAssistant #Newsletter #SmartHome

We build this with the community and to empower that, they need data. That's why we share all the data we gather. Go check it out!

Presence detected 🏡 Want to talk shop with a specific team member at IFA Berlin? Here's when we're home. Stop by, say hi, and geek out about your favorite topics. 👋

ESPHome is now accessible to everyone, wether you've been with us for years or just learned about ESPHome. Try out the brand new starter kit and learn how to make your own smart home devices. Now available worldwide.

🚀 24 hours to go! The ESPHome Starter Kit drops tomorrow, Aug 12 at 21:00 CEST. We're celebrating with our commercial partner Apollo Automation and special guests Reed (Smart Home Solver), Simon (Simon Says Home Assistant), and Gavin (Hometech.fm). See you there for all the details! 🎉

What if anyone could make their own smart home devices without prior knowledge? And these devices seamless integrate into your smart home, fully local, private and secure. Join us this Wednesday to learn more!

@mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip hey Matthew, we've been getting serious about infrared with Home Assistant and found a bug in your broadlink library. Fix is here github.com/mjg59/python... not sure if you're still interested in maintenance. Let us know if we can help.

Great (and fun!) video by Paul about how easy it is to get AI to help you build your smart home. Shout out to Magnus Overli, creator of the OpenCode app fully pre-configured for Home Assistant. Installs in minutes! This is the true power of an open platform. The true power of our community.

If you’re in Europe, you’ll want to check this out. They’re trying to push chat control through again, and this time the votes are stacked against us: fightchatcontrol.eu

We are reinventing ESPHome. A new era that welcomes both new and experienced users. Easier and faster, for everyone.

Biggest single improvement to our automation engine ever. Go check it out.

Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, a botanical garden founded in 1638, is fully run by Home Assistant to create a local system fully under their control 👌💐 vooijs.eu/posts/why-is...

Matter support in Home Assistant just got faster, more stable, and more capable than ever. 🎉 See what’s changed and why it’s a big deal for your smart home.👇 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Finally, the post about collab w/ @trailofbits.bsky.social is out: blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/22/i.... #aiohttp was one of the participating projects and got 8 security fixes out of it! #Python

Today my 8 year old took one of the dev screens I had laying around and used AI to make a score board for today's game. It's controlled by touch, with the cheering people getting happier the more NL won. Dev boards are now the ultimate building blocks for your imagination. Anyone can do this!

The most sustainable device is the one you already own. 🌍 That's why our recent releases of Home Assistant and ESPHome help you bridge the gap between your smart devices and older, offline protocols. Read more 👇

Noticed how our last few releases opened up the path to integrating non-smart devices? The best path for your smart home is working with devices you already own. New is not always better. Existing devices are the sustainable choice: that's a _smart_ home.

Home Assistant voice control literally in the palm of your hand is going to be so cool. Can't wait.

Transparency is at the core of everything we do at the Open Home Foundation. You trust us with your money, we make open and empowering technology that puts you first, not investors or advertisers. Today we're publishing our 2025 annual report. It's all there publicly: the highs, the lows, the money.

I’ve been working on something new. Presenting YAMLRocks 🪨 A fast, correct YAML library for Python, written in Rust. YAML 1.2 (and 1.1), safe by default, and round-trip editing that keeps comments, anchors, and formatting intact. #OpenSource

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

We're live with Music Assistant release party for the brand new 2.9 release!

Tired of Big Tech monetizing your social life? The alternative is one click away in @home-assistant.io. Social Home: a privacy-first, fully local platform on your own hardware. No ads, no tracking, your data stays home. Built in the open. Open beta is live 👉 social-home.io

@reckless.bsky.social the sizing guide values for CM and inches don't match for the new merch. Each value from CM converted to inches differs like 0.2-0.3" from the reported inch values. Which one is the right one?

Home Assistant 2026.6! 🎉 A friendlier card picker 💡, infrared devices that now also listen 📡, live condition tests and target counts in the automation editor ✨, Z-Wave smart lock credential management 🔐, and 16 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/06... #HomeAssistant

Oslo had a nice visit this week from @paulusschoutsen.nl and @home-assistant.io organized a great meetup. It was fun to meet other smart home enthusiasts.

My colleagues in our cybersecurity testing lab published a nice reminder of why @consumerreports.org tests your connected devices for security flaws and privacy problems. It's also a reminder that with the information we provide, consumers can make better choices.

I've been having so much fun with the OpenDisplay screens in my house, showing relevant data at the right places. Super stoked to welcome them as a collaboration partner of the foundation. I can recommend anyone to check it out! www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/welcomi...

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I are chatting with Imre Laszlo about MiciMike which aims to turn your Google Home Mini into a fully local Home Assistant voice satellite. Perfect for re-using some older hardware

For our May newsletter, we discuss research as an antidote to 'software brain'. 🧠 Plus learn about our new collaboration partner: OpenDisplay, choose from our list of community meetups, and much more 👇

From our first peer-reviewed paper to the decisions behind our projects 🚀 Open Home Foundation researchers Annika Schulz and Idil Bostan unpack how research shapes everything we do.