iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 19/09/2026

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=...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 28/06/2026

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...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 21/06/2026

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!

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 15/06/2026

I was right there with you! Sadly a tie. Better luck next game !

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 06/06/2026

@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?

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 17/05/2026

Our community is producing DIY tutorials whose results rival finished products. DIY doesn't mean breadboards and wires, but thoughtful products with the features and look that suits your home. Example: a color e-ink frame with a local API and long battery life: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7354547

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 15/05/2026

Want multi-room audio perfectly in sync and not afraid of some soldering? Make your own Sendspin devices for under $10 thanks to the SendspinZero project by RealDeco. github.com/RealDeco/Sen...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 16/04/2026

This is me at State of the Open Home last year and this year. After years of struggling with my weight, Zepbound (GLP-1) helped me take control and lose 30kg in 7 months. I feel better and have more energy than I had in years. If you're struggling with weight and can afford it, I highly recommend it

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 13/04/2026

WebSerial has landed in Firefox Nightly !! 🎉 Enable it in about:config and it all just works as expected. Took a brand new ESP32 and had a new Bluetooth proxy added to Home Assistant within 2 minutes 👌

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 05/04/2026

It's not too late to pick up one the last tickets and come hang out with me and the team this Wednesday in Utrecht! events.openhomefoundation.org/sotoh26/

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 18/01/2026

I switched to Android last year and I've been having a blast. Really allows me to make it mine - and that means a phone not set up to distract me.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 25/12/2025

If you want to impress friends and family this Christmas, host a Sendspin party! More info at github.com/sendspin/sen... Or quickly start a party from the command line uvx sendspin serve retro.dancewave.online/retrodance.mp3

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 24/12/2025

Your Home Assistant Voice PE just got better! Update to the latest firmware to receive Sendspin support. Multi-room audio, perfectly in sync, streamed from Music Assistant. Update rolling out and made available in Home Assistant within next few hours.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 17/11/2025

Big update to my dashboard screenshot add-on Puppet. Version 2.0 now includes a UI to easily generate a screenshot URL, including live data from Home Assistant. github.com/balloob/home...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 19/10/2025

Got Cory's new book. It is excellent 👌

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 13/10/2025

𝙷̶𝚘̶𝚠̶ ̶𝚏̶𝚊̶𝚛̶ ̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚞̶𝚜̶𝚑̶ ̶𝚉̶-̶𝚆̶𝚊̶𝚟̶𝚎̶?̶ How far can we move Z-Wave! 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐙-𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭! Place your ZWA-2 antenna anywhere you want and connect it back to Home Assistant using Wi-Fi or PoE. www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 19/09/2025

12 years working on Home Assistant. I still debug my tests like this 😅

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 02/09/2025

I've been a supporter of the Python Software Foundation for years and always make sure to vote in elections. It's important that your favorite open source projects are sustained. Support from independents is always better than relying on corporations with the inevitable strings attached.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 29/08/2025

Phone app on Pixel making sure I never have to talk to a human again 👌

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 26/08/2025

And once you have an image, we were able to use Google Veo 3 to turn it into a video 🤯

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 26/08/2025

This new model is able to keep object consistency, allowing you to explore a lot of different use cases. I first had it remove the background, and then continued to use that image as input for further requests.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 26/08/2025

My brother is an artist and is working on a new project called DreamFeed, headlining Gogbot in Enschede next month. It works by requiring people watching a social media feed to work out to swipe to see more content. I had early access to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and decided to have some fun.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 20/08/2025

Home Assistant allows you to experience the future today. Take this accomplishment from /u/Monokside on Reddit: dashboard showing real-time shower stats, announcement when target temperature reached and a summary at the end. Excellent, no notes 👌 www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 17/08/2025

Visited Bluetooth today 😎 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 15/08/2025

I just looked at Zen Browser again as a replacement for Arc and it has come a long way! It is great. Open source, powered by Firefox, and most important of all: maintained by an active community ❤️ zen-browser.app

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 16/07/2025

Asked my son to integrate Home Assistant into his vibe coding. Now his pong game bounces around the logo and every bounce changes the light 🤩

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 12/07/2025

Great interview with Signal boss @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in the Volkskrant today. Netherlands in top 5 countries Signal users and grown x25 since January, wow!

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 22/06/2025

It's wild how AI has accelerated how I work. Integrations in Home Assistant can be similar, but none are ever exactly the same. With Claude I point it at a change for one integration and tell it to apply it to another integration and it succeeds 🤯 I did that 5x today and saved days of work.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 10/06/2025

Home Assistant having an extremely flexible dashboard engine allows our community to quickly test any new design that pops up. /u/Pivotonian on Reddit did that with Liquid Glass style from Apple. He shared the YAML, anyone can try it. Now that's the power of open! 💪 www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 09/06/2025

Have you noticed the beautiful art accompanying the @openhomefoundation.org newsletters? That's not some AI prompt but amazing art by our in-house artist/designer Clelia Rella. Subscribe for free to get her latest art in your inbox: newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 31/05/2025

Arrived in Dublin. Blending in.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 27/05/2025

I've created a tool to test integrations against our integration quality rules using AI. It generates per integration and rule a report explaining if the integration satisfies the rule and if not, what needs to change in the integration to pass the rule. It's been useful! github.com/balloob/home...

Screenshot of the report generated for the Home Connect integration about the action-setup rule.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 23/05/2025

Just released ESPHome 2025.5 includes the latest iteration of our voice assistant that can work fully local. All devices we ever used are now onboarded using the voice wizard and offer on device wake word selection, announcements, initiate conversations with users, and improved media playing!

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 17/05/2025

Now Amazon stopping by at 4am….

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 17/05/2025

Alexa+ has been spotted in the wild! youtu.be/TAyOcmH5X0E?... If you just want a good laugh, watch the first minute 🙃 (Via Paul Hibbert)

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 05/05/2025

Someone made a @home-assistant.io app for Pebble that supports the Home Assistant voice assistant ?! 🤯 github.com/skylord123/p... (picture from www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...)

Pebble watch showing interaction with the Home Assistant voice assistant.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 29/04/2025

I ordered something from Home Depot. 1 day free delivery. Next day at 8pm I get a text that RoadieXL will deliver the package. The gig was offered at 8am and someone got it at 8pm. AND THEN DELIVERED AND RANG THE DOORBELL AT 1.30 AT NIGHT??????!!!!!!!

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 12/04/2025

Arrived at the studio. T - 4 till the show ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Vc...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 03/04/2025

Siri suggestions turning my iPhone Home Screen into a place to show ads 👎

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 01/04/2025

Holy shit what a show. Little bit of Europe love in New York! #JoostKlein #TantuBeats

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 27/03/2025

Got to get Zuck promoting all our merch 🤣 home-assistant-store.creator-spring.com/listing/ha-l...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 27/03/2025

Ok, so this new ChatGPT image creation is really good. I haven't been so excited about image generation since Midjourney was released.

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 18/03/2025

Open Home Foundation in Chicago! We’re attending the CSA member meeting to discuss the future of Matter and Zigbee!

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 10/03/2025

Over the last weeks I've been playing with an add-on that serves screenshots of your Home Assistant dashboard. It's a prototype to explore how we can leverage our amazing dashboard engine and custom card community to create informational LCD/e-ink screens for your home. github.com/balloob/home...

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 28/02/2025

How difficult can it be to get 2 devices to talk to each other? 🙃

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