balloob

Founder Home Assistant & Nabu Casa

Location: Brooklyn
Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io
Nabu Casa: https://www.nabucasa.com
PaulusSchoutsen.nl: https://paulusschoutsen.nl

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2026-05-09 00:17:57 GMT

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thanks! One mathematician to create the algorithm, and an army of contributors to make it work everywhere :-) https://github.com/Sendspin/time-filter/blob/main/docs/theory.md

2026-05-08 22:20:01 GMT

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Did you hear that we've been making an open source version of this? https://www.sendspin-audio.com
Runs on as little as an ESP32, can bridge to Cast and AirPlay. No Wireshark needed to see how the time syncing works, as it's fully open and documented!
Check the site for live demo that runs in your browser

2026-04-13 17:04:34 GMT

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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2025-07-17 07:55:34 GMT

The latest ESPHome release is seriously good. The team just keeps delivering:
- 📡 LoRa support
- 🤹 ‍Allow ESPHome to represent multiple devices in Home Assistant
- 📝 Use jinja2 templates in substitutions
- 📉 Many memory usage reductions
- 📈 Many performance optimizations
https://esphome.io/changelog/2025.7.0

2025-06-22 03:28:04 GMT

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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2025-05-05 04:02:37 GMT

Someone made a @npub1hn2…kl6z app for Pebble that supports the Home Assistant voice assistant ?! 🤯 https://github.com/skylord123/pebble-home-assistant-ws
(picture from https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1kf02up/fyi_theres_a_new_ha_app_for_pebble_that_has_ha/)
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2025-03-08 19:47:41 GMT

There is an article going around that ESP32 chips have a backdoor. It's an undocumented software API. If you are writing code for the ESP32, you can run more commands. It doesn't allow anyone from the outside to just access what's going on in the chip. The use of the word "backdoor" was clickbait 🫤

2025-02-04 15:31:17 GMT

Where the Icelandic @npub1hn2…kl6z community at?
On Feb 24, some of the core team are in Reykjavik and we would love to meet you.
Interested? Leave your email and we'll be in touch when we have a time and location.
https://forms.gle/K8a4z5HcYJdtRnZE7

2024-12-24 04:41:54 GMT

Today I migrated my 10 year old NAS server to a new motherboard powered by Intel N100. After the transplant, Unraid didn't want to boot from USB drive. This trick from a forum post from 2021 solved it.
Lesson learned: when you solve a problem, make sure it's indexable for future us!
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2024-11-20 02:29:19 GMT

Super cool: NetworkChuck has done a video series in which he builds a voice assistant powered by @npub1hn2…kl6z. Powered fully by local AI, Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech. Open Source for the win 💪
#homeassistant
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhvC56v63ILr2oFbK-Yj9jnIdqSLwCFU

2024-11-10 01:07:03 GMT

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thank you 🙏

2024-07-30 07:20:53 GMT

It is important that voice assistants only listen when a user says the wake word, but this is not an easy task! To increase the accuracy of microWakeWord, we need recordings from people from all over the world saying wake words.
We created a website that allows you to help us by recording yourself with your phone or computer and contribute them to the collective. We're starting with one wake word, and are working with the community to decide which to add next.
https://ohf-voice.github.io/wake-word-collective/