iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 02/10/2026

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

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Home Assistant renames Home Assistant Cloud to Link

‘Big tech ruined the cloud, so we’re out’

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Nabu Casa @nabucasa.com · 02/10/2026

Amazing article from @jp2e.bsky.social explaining why we changed Home Assistant Cloud to Link. We hate what big tech has done to the cloud... we even took the cloud out of our logo www.theverge.com/tech/1003936...

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Home Assistant renames Home Assistant Cloud to Link

‘Big tech ruined the cloud, so we’re out’

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Home Assistant Devs @home-assistant.dev · 17/09/2026

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! 🎉

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ESPHome @esphome.io · 12/08/2026

📢 INTRODUCING THE ESPHOME STARTER KIT! 🎉 Designed and built by our commercial partner Apollo Automation, the ESPHome Starter Kit gives you the tools, skills and confidence to stop just using smart home tech, and start creating it. Build, Learn, Automate. esphome.io/starter-kit

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 05/08/2026

Home Assistant 2026.8! 🎉 New OS installs no longer need :8123 in the address to access the UI, making it that little bit more approachable for new users 🏡, you can now set the Entity ID format for new entities ⚙️, and more! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/08... #HomeAssistant

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 27/07/2026

Enabled Facebook account again purely for Marketplace. But its algorithms are truly awful and manipulative. The amount of noise and nonsense it generates offers absolutely no value to the world.... #deletefacebook #metasucks

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 25/07/2026

Correct shirt selected for the day 🤘🤘 #bestalbum Whiplash !!

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Metallica @metallica.com · 25/07/2026

"Kill 'Em All" was released 43 years ago #OnThisDay in 1983! What's your favorite song on the album?

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Open Home Foundation @openhomefoundation.org · 23/07/2026

Take a trip with us to one of the world's largest botanical gardens, where they're using Home Assistant to make tech more approachable 🌱, the new ESPHome Device builder, and preview our device database! newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/the-walled-g... #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #Newsletter

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 23/07/2026

Excited to share the preview edition of our community-powered smart home device database. We need your input to make this tool as accessible and useful as possible!

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Canadian Loyalist 🇨🇦 @shakespearesgal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 07/07/2026

To build a stronger Companion app for everyone, we're discontinuing support for iOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS 11. Read on for all the details 🔽 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07...

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 01/07/2026

Home Assistant 2026.7! 🎉 Purpose-specific triggers and conditions graduate from Labs to become the new default, so your automations say what you want 🧠, Activity logbook is reborn as a timeline 📖, one-tap Update all 🔄, and 10 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07...

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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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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 11/06/2026

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.

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The first of many: Our 2025 Annual Report – Open Home Foundation

Pull up a chair, because the foundation's 2025 Annual Report is here and packed with a year's worth of growth, milestones, and building with our community.

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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

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Paulus Schoutsen @paulusschoutsen.nl · 15/04/2026

New ESPHome release landed and it's 🔥 A lot of work has been done to make ESPHome faster and use less memory. This continues this release, alongside a whole range of new features like LVGL upgrades and a new Mitsubishi CN105 component. esphome.io/changelog/20...

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ESPHome 2026.4.0 - April 2026

Changelog for ESPHome 2026.4.0.

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Open Home Foundation @openhomefoundation.org · 11/04/2026

The Open Home Foundation has an official blog now! 🎉 For our first post, we have the State of the Open Home recap blog. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us in person and watched us live - if you missed out on the live event, you can find the whole thing on our Youtube channel. #HomeAutomation

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Building what's next: State of the Open Home 2026 – Open Home Foundation

From a new Community department to a public roadmap awaiting your input – and more. Catch up on the event highlights and help shape what we build next.

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 08/04/2026

We are Live! 🎤 State of the Open Home 2026 is here! We're talking about what's up next for the Home Assistant (and other projects), how we're building in 2026, and sharing some huge wins from the year gone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAL...

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Join the Open Home Foundation team and guests for the State of the Open Home 2026 livestream. It's our annual event where we celebrate our community, share s...

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 07/04/2026

Tomorrow is State of the Open Home 2026! 🎉 Join us live on YouTube at 19:00 CEST (1:00 PM EDT/10:00 AM PDT) to get excited about what’s next, celebrate our community, and share successes as we continue to build in the open. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAL... #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

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Join the Open Home Foundation team and guests for the State of the Open Home 2026 livestream. It's our annual event where we celebrate our community, share s...

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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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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 30/03/2026

Next week on Wednesday, April 8, we go live on the Open Home Foundation YouTube channel for our annual event! Join us to celebrate our community, share successes, and get excited about what’s next as we continue to build in the open. 👇

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 28/03/2026

New @home-assistant.io toy installed and already migrated everything in like less than 10 mins. Super simple.... #zwave #homeautomation

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 25/03/2026

Apparently somebody just built us a new marketing site... 🙏 justfuckingusetailscale.com

JUST FUCKING USE
TAILSCALE
STOP FUCKING AROUND. CONNECT ANYWHERE.

(with AI slop image of big explosions and laptops and phones and routers and such)

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Nabu Casa @nabucasa.com · 23/03/2026

Nabu Casa, with the help of Ameridroid is starting our first refurb program 🎉! We hate smart home e-waste, so let's find new homes for these like-new Home Assistant Greens. Thanks as always, every purchase supports the development of Home Assistant. www.nabucasa.com/news/2026-03...

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 09/03/2026

Been using Samsung cell phones for years and 4 weeks ago decided to try the Pixel 10 Pro. The phone is fine it's the knock on impact to everything else. My YouTube is now filled with garbage conspiracy theory crap and the number of ad's across android devices has increased. I regret this decision!

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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

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Home Assistant Devs @home-assistant.dev · 04/03/2026

Home Assistant 2026.3 stats: - 1 month development cycle - 1390 pull requests - 3,516 files changed - 177,694 lines added - 38,271 lines removed #HomeAssistant

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 04/03/2026

A subscription that's actually useful to the world and I'm happy to pay for every year!.. Thanks to the @home-assistant.io team for everything that you do. #homeassistant #nabucasa @nabucasa.bsky.social

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Phil Hawthorne @philhawthorne.com · 04/03/2026

New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! 😺 Rohan and I are digging into 2026.3: map vacuums to Areas for voice, HA as Android assistant (wake word), Python 3.14 boosts + new integrations and mailbag comments youtu.be/YTphwNUXMCc

Home Assistant 2026.3 and Home Assistant News

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 19/02/2026

We've been talking about it for forever, but now the wait is over: the @openhomefoundation.org merch store is here! 🥳 It's a great way to support our mission and show what you stand for with high-quality swag. 👕 Read on to learn what else is in store 👇🏼 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

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The Open Home Foundation merch store is here!

Introducing the Open Home Foundation merch store: an easy way to support our mission, while grabbing some quality swag in the process!

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 17/02/2026

Curious to know what the @home-assistant.io community is doing in this scenario. The Leviton zwave has 1 controlled plug and 1 constant power. Freezers are in the non controlled, I monitor the alive status of the node and alert if dead. Smartpanel isn't an option I wish And a UPS yes it's on the way

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 17/02/2026

An expensive lesson learned!, a tripped breaker and loss of ~$1K of meat. I wasn't monitoring the breakers and it wasn't on a smart plug. Just one of the things I didn't get around too. Both now have dedicated breaker per with a zwave plug per.. Monitoring the node status of each #homeautomation

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 11/02/2026

Holy RAM prices.. the internet wasn't joking 1 stick 8GB DDR4 is $443 CAD.. what the hell !!! #ramprices #aicosts

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 11/02/2026

Device thoughts 🤔 after a power outage...Zwave/ZigBee.. whatever get back to work.. Matter.. I don't like anybody anymore so I'm going sulk 😭😭 fall off the network and refuse to anything until someone interacts with me then I might start working. #matter #homeautomation #zwavejustworks

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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 02/02/2026

Imagine knowing how a device will actually perform in your home before you buy it 💡 We're building a database to make that happen! Read our blog to find out how you can contribute 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

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How we'll build the device database, together

We're building a device database to help everyone make better choices for their smart home. Discover our plans and how you can help shape them.

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 27/01/2026

Additional testing is pointing to Watchman. I verified by restoring I immediately got the watchman beta release prompt to upgrade. I upgraded and it killed the instance again. Restored again. Removed watchman and stable now. HDD failure and Watchman beta! @home-assistant.io @home-assistant.dev

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 26/01/2026

After what felt like 10 years 🤣 my @home-assistant.io instance is restored. Now performing another backup just to be on the save side 😁 Definitely didn't need that on a Sunday night/Monday morning. Now to start the work day.. #homeautomation

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 26/01/2026

Now we find out if my 3 backups in 2026 will work. I did actually test restore on a VM over the holidays but this is the first time doing my production @home-assistant.io instance on physical hardware. Signs point to an SSD failure on the original system. 😭 #homeassistant #homeautomation

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 26/01/2026

Oh no my first @home-assistant.io outage after a power outage during updates. CLI is up but no UI.. and she's slow.. something has definitely broken. Looks like I'm restoring tomorrow #homeassistant #homeautomationfun

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 21/01/2026

Made the mistake of calling Bell Canada today to discuss the continuation of them extorting a ridiculous amount of money out of me monthly for a cell phone plan. Suffice to say it went as expected and everything is more expensive. Now I want throw myself in front of a snow plow!! #bellcanadaripoff

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: “WHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 02/01/2026

Finally finished Andor on Disney+.. what a perfect tie in to Rogue One which I am totally watching again tomorrow. I loved it #starwars

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 01/01/2026

Definitely pushing the limits of my Shelly 2.5 in an outdoor enclosure at -25C.. communication is "intermittent" at best with @home-assistant.io Luckily local functionality is still good.. maybe I'll build a mini space heater for the enclosure 😁 #newproject #HomeAssistant #Iot #Shelly

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 30/12/2025

Ah the joys of home automation!! Sometimes all the players don't play nice together. First @home-assistant.io voice fell out with everyone, then @shelly_IoT devices started falling off the network, then @ubiquiti.bsky.social ... time to reboot the house.. Everything is well again 🤗 #homeautomation

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 10/11/2025

It was eye opening to see the trends and the correlation with other events headaches, sleepiness and my HRV just casually idling along not actually moving air around. So the solution 1. Get rid of the gas stove .. induction 2. Automate the HRV and align with Ecobee Fan timing 3. Monitor changes

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Shay Byrne @shaybyrne.ca · 10/11/2025

A few months ago I decided to start gathering CO2 data with an M5 Stack sensor and @home-assistant.io partly because of my gas stove and all the hype around gas nowadays.. and wow! Based on the data we no longer have a gas stove in our home. #homeautomation #m5stack

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