🏠 Home Assistant

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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform championed by the Open Home Foundation that prioritizes privacy, choice, and sustainability, letting you locally control and automate your devices to create the most innovative smart home you can dream of.

12 gosund wall plugs, plugged into each other making a big stack.

Calibrating an ESPHome flashed power plug

⚠️This blog post is already really old... things changed a lot since then. Just so you know. So you got a power plug or any other device that can measure power, current or the voltage flowing through it. Nice! So did I, and I flashed them with ESPHome since well,

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Picture of Paulus Schoutsen and Franck Nijhof

Home Assistant Paulus invaded my live stream

The day after. Yesterday, I was doing my weekly add-on development stream on Twitch but was interrupted. A real-life Paulus Schoutsen (Founder of Home Assistant) showing up on my doorstep by surprise. Holy mother of home automations! 😲 FYI: Paulus lives in the USA, while I live in The

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