👋 I'm Franck Nijhof.
GitHub Star 🌟, Open sourcerer, and lead of Home Assistant 🏠

People assume my smart home is a futuristic, perfectly automated masterpiece. The reality? Let’s just say… it’s time for some confessions. 😰

I've visited the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the beginning of 2025. I spent many hours exploring the "smart home" areas of the expo, and this is what I've noticed and learned about the future of the connected smart home.

A home battery that you can install yourself. No electrician, no complicated setup—just plug it in, and it works (allegedly).

A few weeks ago, I became a GitHub Star, and today, a surprise package arrived from GitHub! 🤩 Naturally, I had to do an unboxing video—my first-ever attempt, so you can expect top-tier professional production skills (LOL 😂). What’s inside? Let’s just say there are a LOT of Monas!

I'm incredibly honored, proud, happy, and super thankful to share with you that I'm now a GitHub Star!

I’m kicking off 2025 with some bold resolutions—like finally fixing my own “test lab” of a smart home, going all-in on open-source contributions, and publishing more writing than ever.

We’re having amazing weather in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 right now! Even though it’s technically spring, it feels like summer, with temperatures hitting 25 degrees Celsius already in early May 😎. This is super rare for us Dutchies, so we’re really making the most out of it by spending lots

This blog is for those people whose daily job is IT-related (DevOps, developers, system administrators, etc) and who are using Home Assistant at home. If you fit that description, you just might suffer from what I call: The enterprise smart home syndrome. When working in IT, you’ll often end

I don’t write a lot on my blog (unfortunately actually, I would really wish I was better at this); however, yesterday I had to do some maintenance on the server running this website… This made me realize; that I added Google Tag Manager & Google Analytics to this darn