Founder @home_assistant & @NabuCasa. It's nice to be important but it is more important to be nice.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2008
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Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
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.
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
This might be the biggest thing I've shipped in Home Assistant. And also the most boring one.
HACS is now built in, as the Marketplace. If we did it right, you'll barely notice.
I wrote down how I look at it, and why it's called that 👇
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Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
Snap mode: no spring, just the motor pushing back and letting go, like a light switch. Felt like a throwback to working on VR inputs. Fun to build and fun to play with.
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
@balloob I have something similar already working with HA youtube.com/watch?v=WCuOerGP…
This is really cool. Who is going to integrate this into @home_assistant ?
I have discovered the the BEST way to get 3D modeling results from LLMs
The app LiDAR scans the room while taking hundreds of high quality photos.
Then a workflow + skill I've created models out every item recursively checking the model against the photo at the exact spot + angle where the photo was captured
The result is a a dimensionally accurate and high quality model of your room
All in my latest video on how to do it youtube.com/watch?v=JGQCcCzu…
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
Back in business! 🎉
The Open Home Foundation merch store is live again, and you can now shop in your own currency 🌍
We’ve got lots more improvements coming over the next few months 👀
Shop the merch 🛍️
store.openhomefoundation.org…
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
Can confirm @wesbos 🙌 Used your kiosk app on my Frameo and turned it into a Home Assistant panel.
Why not load HA? On that 1 GHz CPU its own login page drops 80% of frames.
vanilla JS, one websocket, redraw only on change. 1.9 s to load, one embedded server to push new changes without having to unplug the frame, night mode, 0 jank.
github.com/wellavelino/frame…
I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen
They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB
1280×800 resolution with a nice touch screen
I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video
wesbos.com/hacking-smart-pho…
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
I don't always change my lights' color. But when I do, I use motorized faders.
There are so many contributions happening to @home_assistant and the bigger Open Home ecosystem, too many to keep track off. Almost 2000 PRs merged in last 7 days for HA!
So I let my agents create the OHF Daily; a place to highlight the cool stuff, updated automatically.
And open-source on GitHub ofcourse github.com/balloob/ohf-daily
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
£50 botframe now working as my living room @home_assistant dashboard with custom boot screen (as Copilot now knows everything to root my frame, might as well)
Once again, record numbers.
Home Assistant 2026.10 stats:
- 1 month development cycle
- 2,242 pull requests
- 3,000+ files changed
- 333,818 lines added
- 82,909 lines removed
#HomeAssistant
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
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 👇
openhomefoundation.org/blog/…
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
The shutdown of June Oven is just another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep. theverge.com/column/1000778/…
Paulus Schoutsen retweeted
I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited): homelabfest.org
