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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home

@frenck.social
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A Human. Being. Him/He. Dad. Open Sourcerer. GitHub Star 🌟 #HomeAssistant lead engineer. Passionate. Dedicated. Motto: Make a positive difference every single day. Be the change ❤

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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 05/07/2026
OK I'm done with the complex network setup... #FromScratch #Matter
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 03/07/2026
What my day looks like nowadays with @coderabbitai.bsky.social....
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 23/06/2026
Some people still think Home Assistant automations mean YAML and a quiet evening to question your life choices. 😅 Nope. The new triggers and conditions let you start with what you want your home to react to, not which trigger type fits... More power, less complexity!
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More power, less complexity in Home Assistant automations
The new triggers and conditions make Home Assistant automations more approachable, more powerful, and easier to extend without taking away the power underneath.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 18/06/2026
Open source won. That is why LGTM stopped being enough. In projects like Home Assistant, a pull request is not just a diff. It can affect real homes, personal data, and trust. Review got heavier because the stakes changed.
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Open source won. That is why LGTM stopped being enough
Open source became critical infrastructure. That success changed what pull request review means, especially for projects like Home Assistant that millions of households now depend on.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 14/06/2026
Home Assistant automation modes: why the default isn’t your friend. The default mode is “single”. Safe, backwards-compatible, and why automations can appear to ignore you. Learn how to pick the mode you need 🙂
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Automation modes in Home Assistant
What should happen when an automation triggers again before it is done? Pick the right Home Assistant automation mode deliberately.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 13/06/2026
Woke up with a random brain wave and had to check if I was right. My Saturday morning. 😄 Tiny Home Assistant PR: less wasted work in a hot template rendering path. Benchmark on my machine: about 51% faster. 🚀 Nice way to start the weekend. 🍻
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Skip literal_eval for template results that cannot be a Python literal by frenck · Pull Request #173664 · home-assistant/core
Proposed change The result of a template render is coerced into a Python value via ast.literal_eval, memoized with @lru_cache(maxsize=EVAL_CACHE_SIZE) in _cached_parse_result. However, lru_cache o...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 12/06/2026
My second newsletter just went out. 🚀 This one has RSS, YAML, Thread plumbing, old-web nostalgia, and the slightly uncomfortable confession that my Home Assistant setup has 294 devices and zero automations. Curious what people think when they open it from their inbox.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 11/06/2026
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
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YAMLRocks
A fast, correct YAML library for Python, written in Rust.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 09/06/2026
My first personal newsletter shipped. The next one is already slowly forming from links, notes, and things I did not want to lose in a browser tab forever. If you want one from the next batch, subscribe here: frenck.dev/newsletter/
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 07/06/2026
I’ve been quietly working on a new, extremely focused open-source project. The sensible part of me says: finish the tests and documentation first. The impatient part has already hovered over the publish button more than once. Soon™ 😀
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 06/06/2026
Home Assistant just added the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi and Trackmix WiFi to Works with Home Assistant. Reolink now has 10 certified cameras. That matches my setup: local, reliable, and excellent with Home Assistant.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 05/06/2026
𝗔 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆. But a smart home can help you measure waste, automate boring fixes, and keep useful hardware out of the trash. New post: 𝗔 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 🍃
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A smart home will not save the planet
A smart home is not magic sustainability dust. The useful part is measurement, local control, and keeping good devices useful longer.
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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 03/06/2026
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
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MarkWattTech @markwatttech.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@home-assistant.io 2026.6 is releasing later this week (Wednesday, June 3rd). Here are the 5 features that I really liked in the release: youtu.be/6cY7zSTrEIM Have you spotted any other features in 2026.6 that you're excited about?
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5 New Features in 2026.6 (Home Assistant)
YouTube video by Mark Watt Tech
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 01/06/2026
First newsletter went out Friday. Subscribers got it first, but I made this one public too so you can see what kind of thing it is. Mostly notes, links, thoughts, and a drawer being slightly less full. Read it here: frenck.dev/email/e333f2...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 31/05/2026
AI did not create the maintainer burden problem in open source. It accelerated it. Contributors are being amplified. Maintainers are still the verification bottleneck. New post: frenck.dev/open-source-...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 30/05/2026
Smoke and CO alarms are not the flashy part of a smart home. Good. They should quietly work, connect locally, and not become another app island. Nice to see Sensereo join Works with Home Assistant. www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/05...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 29/05/2026
First newsletter sent. 🚀 I’m genuinely proud of that one. Not because it is perfect, but because I actually shipped it. If it landed in your inbox, I’d love to hear what you think. What worked, what didn’t, what you want more of. Now I’m going to pretend I’m calm and normal about this.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 28/05/2026
I’m publishing my first newsletter this Friday. It will be a more personal place for Home Assistant, open source, and the local-first smart home thoughts that don’t always fit into a post. If that sounds useful, you can subscribe here: frenck.dev/newsletter/
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 26/05/2026
Developer machines are not production, but they often hold keys to production-shaped doors. Editors, extensions, CLIs, and local credentials are part of the supply chain now. That is uncomfortable. Also true. frenck.dev/your-editor-...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 25/05/2026
NFC tags sound boring until you use them. A cheap sticker becomes a Home Assistant trigger. No app hunting. No voice command. Just tap, and let the home do the thing. www.howtogeek.com/home-assista...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 08/04/2026
I am ready for it! State of the Open Home 2026! Are you?! #HomeAssistant
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 07/04/2026
On my way to Utrecht to prepare for the State of the Open Home 2026! The Dutch railroad 🚂 in the mean time be like: safe travels and enjoy the view… 🧽🧼 🙈 #ns #trains #roflpimplmao
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 05/04/2026
Templating has felt like homework for too long in Home Assistant. I reworked the docs on @home-assistant.io with one goal: make them more approachable. Every function has its own page now, with real examples! First pass, feedback welcome 🙏 www.home-assistant.io/docs/templat...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 07/03/2026
Just moved into a place with a garden. 60-70m2 of lawn I am not touching by hand. 🤪 Looking for a robot lawnmower for a small space that works with Home Assistant. Everything I find is sized for a castle. Recommendations? Manufacturers? Anyone? 🌿
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Guy Sie @guysie.nl · 06/03/2026
The @openhomefoundation.org partnerships team is growing, and we need someone who loves building relationships as much as we love building @home-assistant.io! Are you part relationship-builder, part deal-closer, part open-source ambassador? Check out:
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Partnership Manager
We are looking for The Open Home Foundation is looking for an experienced Partnership Manager to join our growing partnerships team. This team is responsible for covering all forms of commercial and ...
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Dagger ☀️ @dagger.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
#DOOm läuft auf .. einem Home AssistantDashboard github.com/frenck/home-assistant-do…
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GitHub - frenck/home-assistant-doom: But... Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Yes it can!
But... Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Yes it can! Contribute to frenck/home-assistant-doom development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 06/03/2026
"it's a bonus that you'd work with me 😏" That is true though... 🫶
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 06/03/2026
🚀 I've just opened 2 new roles at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on @home-assistant.io! 🖥️ Frontend Engineer 🔐 Security Engineer Fully remote. Full-time. Open source every day. Best job in the world. It changed my life. This is your chance to change yours. 🔗 openhomefoundation.org/jobs
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Open Home Foundation Jobs
Open Home Foundation Jobs
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Open Home Foundation @openhomefoundation.org · 05/03/2026
Meet the speakers of SOTOH26! 🎙 They'll be taking to the stage on Wednesday, 8 April to celebrate building in the open with our community, share successes and get excited about what's coming next. Join us online or in person. Limited tickets available: sotoh.openhomefoundation.org/ #HomeAssistant
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 03/03/2026
Wanted to install a Reolink garden cam. Found this instead 😬🔌 vm.tiktok.com/ZGdukWvw7/
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 01/03/2026
Can @home-assistant.io run DOOM? Turns out: yes. I built an integration that runs the real DOOM (1993) inside a dashboard, including some sensor entities.. The entire thing was written by AI in under 2 hours. I didn't write a single line of code. Full story: frenck.dev/home-assista...
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So... can Home Assistant run DOOM?
It started with a DOOM t-shirt at a meetup. The real question? Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Two hours later, I had a fully working DOOM integration for Home Assistant and was fighting demons on my smart home dashboard.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 22/02/2026
An amazing Home Assistant cake at @home-assistant.io Community Meetup in Cologne yesterday! 🤩🍰😋 Isn’t the our community the best? 🫶 #HomeAssistant #HomeBakeAutomation #SmartHome
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 21/02/2026
On my way to the Home Assistant Community Meetup in Cologne! 🚗 Excited to meet everyone! 🤗 #HomeAssistant #Community
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 15/02/2026
I said for years I probably wouldn’t go for smart locks. Yet here we are 😅 Installing the NUKI Smart Lock Ultra + Keypad 2 with @home-assistant.io soon. Curious about real world experience. What are your do’s and don’ts? Got automations that actually improved daily life? #SmartHome #HomeAssistant
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GitHub Next @githubnext.com · 13/02/2026
And we're particularly excited about using this to help open-source maintainers. When we showed this to @frenck.social, the maintainer of Home Assistant, he wrote a workflow that reads the traces for bugs and figures out if they originate in the HA codebase or not. True noise elimination for OSS.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 14/02/2026
📦 A fresh package arrived! I still get that “kid on a birthday” feeling when the mail shows up with a box of new goodies… This one from Signify has me pretty excited 🤗
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 02/02/2026
Come to our the @home-assistant.io community meetup in Utrecht! We opened up way more spots, so more people can join! Lot of us are there, including famous ESPHome people! See you tomorrow? 🍻 luma.com/wgktnnxp?tk=...
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Meet the Open Home Foundation team - Utrecht · Luma
We'd love for you to join us 😎 Come hang out with people from Home Assistant, Music Assistant, and ESPHome for a casual meetup right here in Utrecht! 🥳 This…
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 30/01/2026
Arrived in Brussels! 🚂 Even with the trains strike happening here in Belgium 🙈 Excited for #FOSDEM! 🎉 See you there?
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 30/01/2026
I decided to give UniFi’s Teleport a shot while traveling. In a 4 hour train ride right now; working remotely on my MacBook. First impression: meh… it works; but it for sure needs a lot of improvements around recovering from flaky 5G internet connections…
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 27/01/2026
Let it run overnight and woke up to this beauty! 🏠✨ 5+ hours of printing later, my new office has some proper @home-assistant.io decoration. Now to find the perfect spot in my streaming background… 🎬
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 19/01/2026
Meh… I am experiencing Odido connectivity issues the past day at my new home… kinda cool UniFi logs and warns for it though!
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 08/01/2026
Well, CES didn't happen for me this year. After three flight cancellations (broken plane, crew limits, lost instrumentation on the runway), I'm still in the Netherlands. My luggage made it to Vegas though, which is the most hilarious part of this whole mess. Choo choo from the frozen Netherlands🚂❄️
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My CES 2026 disaster: three attempts, zero success
Well, this wasn't the CES content I planned.I tried three times to get to Las Vegas for CES 2026. Three times. And I'm recording this from the snow in the Ne...
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 21/12/2025
Let's go! 🚀 Time to bootstrap a fresh Home Assistant instance for my new home ✨ @home-assistant.io #HomeAssistant #SmartHome
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 21/12/2025
New house came with a SolarEdge inverter ☀️ Plot twist: can't access it. SetApp login fails, Wi-Fi credentials on the side are useless. Anyone reset one of these as a new homeowner? Or am I stuck pointing at it hoping it works? #Solar #SmartHome
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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 20/12/2025
I replaced a R**g doorbell with a Reolink PoE one the other day for the Home Assistant integration. Tailscale means I get notifications with photos from HA with nothing leaving my internal network. Great!
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 20/12/2025
Installed the Reolink Doorbell @ my new place. All prepping for my fresh new Home Assistant powered smart home. Besides... it is kinda nice to know that someone is at the door 🙈 #SmartHome #Reolink #doorbellcameras #homeassistant
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 18/12/2025
New place, new network. 🏠 UniFi router, switch, and two APs ready to go. Planned out a VLAN setup that avoids smart home headaches without going overboard. If it works as hoped, I'll blog about the approach. First step: infrastructure. Everything else can wait.
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 18/12/2025
New house tour! We moved in 48 hours ago and the chaos is real. Walking you through every room, showing all the smart home gear the previous owner left behind, and figuring out what half of it does. No polish, just boxes and possibilities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ns...
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New house tour: I bought a house with smart home potential (using Home Assistant)
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 17/12/2025
We got the keys! 🔑🏠 This house has no idea what's about to happen to it 😬 An exciting new smart home adventure awaits... Let the tinkering begin! Stay tuned 😏
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