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WebSerial just landed in Firefox nightly! https://bsky.app/profile/paulusschoutsen.nl/post/3mjfdx3ujta...

Kalman filters are great! For people interested of one used in practice, it's used by Sendspin to keep speakers in sync, even works in browsers on phones on 5G etc. Open the Sendsp…

Home Assistant [1] has been written using web components and it has been great. In 13 years that we've been around, we never had to do a full rewrite of the frontend but always hav…

This has never been the case. Custom elements are DOM Elements and so are just JavaScript objects. Just like you can do aEl.disabled = true, you can set any prop to any type of val…

Does the new app make it easier for users to expose the Ollama daemon on the network (and mdns discovery )? It’s still trickier than needed for Home Assistant users to get started …

Sounds very cool! Also interested in how to follow progress. Is it using ESPHome?

We don't want to come to rely on donations and have to show Wikipedia-style beg banners in our app (I would personally hate to see that myself). So with the limited resources that …

Founder Home Assistant here. Want to chime in that I always love to see write ups like these to see the great things what people achieve with Home Assistant. Not everyone might kno…

Wifi yes. Thread depends on the settings on the Thread Border Router. Ours defaults to no internet access.

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but check out the Shelly BLU Button1. It's a BLE button with a long battery life. It sends out BLE packets when pressed, which can be pi…

There is Zigbee, Z-Wave and Matter. These are all smart home standards that are fully local and devices will be able to be set up and used even when the company goes out of busines…

Founder Home Assistant here. Want to chime in that I always love to see write ups like these to see the great things what people achieve with Home Assistant. Not everyone might kno…

We need to stop chasing compatible API endpoints and work towards an AI standard. I wrote about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887610

Our launch post covers a lot of the original intentions and a good starting point: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-... The way the world works, you need…

Not from our side. You can see our roadmap here; https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/15/roadmap-2024h2... Now the community should be able to create such things, as our auto…

You're right. Home Assistant is the best toolbox out there, but people need to build things themselves. That's something we plan to tackle, but no timeline. Leak sensors, smoke det…