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

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

👋 Well hello, April! Yes, it is April already. Doesn’t time fly? Here in the Netherlands, this month already provided us with some nice sunny days, with exceptional warm temperatures for the time of year… Summer is coming! (yeah I know, it is barely spring 🌱). Nevertheless, I feel the need