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Founder Home Assistant & Nabu Casa

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pyrech, to homeassistant
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Je parle de , de calendrier, de Google Calendar (et aussi un peu de Airbnb) dans mon dernier article, pour automatiser certains comportements de votre maison pendant vos vacances (ou louée par quelqu'un d'autre).

https://loickpiera.com/blog/calendrier-home-assistant/

balloob,
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@pyrech Home Assistant has a new logo 🙃 you can find it by going to https://www.home-assistant.io/ and right click the logo

mhamzahkhan, to homeassistant
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Making a pretty, and neatly organized, and functional lovelace UI is difficult #homeassistant

balloob,
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@mhamzahkhan are you using the new grid and tile cards? https://demo.home-assistant.io/#/lovelace/home

bazcurtis, to homeassistant
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A bit of a frustrating day trying to get my ESP32 Atom Echo working with Home Assistant.

I used this page to flash it, it seems to work, but when it get to the wifi page it just spins looking for a network.

https://esphome.io/projects/index.html

Any ideas what I can do? I can add it via ESPHome, but I assume that I assume that has wipes the Voice Control firmware.

@homeassistant
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@homeassistant

balloob,
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@bazcurtis there was a bug and the fix is being released as we speak

balloob, to random
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Native Assist on iOS is huge. Check the video, it is SO FAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW_eslcO6AU

balloob,
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@jaydisc yeah. See our blog

balloob, to random
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Anyone that knows VoIP and Python and wants to help Home Assistant? I am offering $500 for someone to help us allow Home Assistant to make outbound calls https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/voip-utils/issues/17

balloob,
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@alphasixtyfive our focus is on the grandstream boxes. If people want to make it work with other things, we're open for contributions

balloob, to random
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Friday: the perfect day to start on the things I actually wanted to do this week.

balloob, to random
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Joost Klein to the finals!! Europapa #Eurovision2024

balloob, to random
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Brb. Finding some courage to push real audio innovation
https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C6wAJ4COInX

balloob,
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Here it is https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/09/music-assistant-2/

balloob, to random
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I got access to GitHub CoPilot Workspace and … wow.

For my first try, I went to the @homeassistant website repository and created a new task: "Add to the homepage that Home Assistant is part of the @openhomefoundation.

It starts with turning your task (or issue) into a specification of the problem.

balloob,
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The cool thing is that you can actually go ahead and change anything that was generated. Don't like a point? Edit it, replace it or drop it all together. As a human, you're in control and that is what makes this so useful.

Based on the specification it will generate a plan. In my case, it proposed to add a link to the Yellow home, the website footer and the about section in the sidebar of the blog.

I removed the task for the Yellow site and added a general note with the link of the OHF website

balloob,
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Next is the implementation phase and copilot will execute the plan for each file and generate a diff. In this case, it added the links to the right location.

balloob,
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But co-pilot's work is not done yet! It will propose a branch name, pull request title and description 😃

I created the PR, the tests passed, Klaas reviewed and approved it and an hour later it was merged and live: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/32658

balloob,
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Now, this is a very simple example but I can't wait to see people pushing it to the limits.

I don't consider the output of CoPilot spam because a human has to approve the spec and plan. The generated files can be edited in a codespace, pushed to a branch or turned directly into a PR.

maddox, to random
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Someone should tell Sonos that while they sell hardware, 98% of their customers’ interaction with their brand is with software.

Shipping good performing native software is what premium brands do.

Shipping terribly performing garbage web apps with missing features in a native container is what discount brands do.

I thought Sonos considered themselves a premium brand.

balloob,
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@maddox also another part that relies on their cloud connection 😕 soon they will be like oh these cloud costs, someone needs to cover them.

pimterry, to homeassistant
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Spent some of the weekend playing with Arduinos + Home Assistant (@homeassistant) to keep a better eye on my plants. Even though it's C++, it's so refreshing compared to shipping modern prod code!

Single file, no tests, no 3rd party dependencies, no infra, just run code & see results immediately (if it works, it's done). And with deep sleep the result should keep running on battery for years untouched. Super fun! ✨

balloob,
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@pimterry Nice! You're ready for the next level as Home Assistant tinkerer and use its sister project ESPHome: https://esphome.io/

trib, to homeassistant
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#HomeAssistant shows a lot of promise for #SmartHome integration across manufacturers, but right now, there is still an awful lot of Fucking About™ required to make things happen.

I'm trying to integrate something and the bit that's required before I set the integration up requires SSH, an additional interface element (HACS), and an installation sequence, accompanied by clearing browser cache, that does not easily seem to work.

I'm as keen as the next geek to mess with stuff under the hood, but this is pretty much deep nerd only territory.

balloob,
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@ZS this is not Home Assistant but something provided by a third party.

With other smart home platforms when you try something non-standard, the answer is usually no. With Home Assistant, the answer is "yes, but". Someone finds a way to get things integrated, even if they have to climb mountains. They share that with the community. Just because there is an integration doesn't mean it is instantly easy. That requires work and iteration and as open source project that is exactly our strength.

Mawoka, to homeassistant
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Every time I check for progress on my PR for adding support for the EZ1 inverter, I get pissed. I've put a lot of time into the PR I've been waiting for a review since over a month and that one guy says he doesn't have time for that, but still reviews other PRs. I mean, I can't judge, he's also just a volunteer, but I still feel a bit cheated on. The other thing is that HA is (kind of) a commercial project and they ask me to review 2 others PRs to get my work merged.

balloob,
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@Mawoka PRs that add a new integration take a lot of time to review. Many moving parts including reviewing the library that is used. Reviewing small PRs takes a lot less time and can be done while on a short break.

Home Assistant is part of the Open Home Foundation and is not a commercial project. Last year 17000 people contributed. There are some people working full-time on it for Nabu Casa. Their focus is on the chores and releases and making sure the community is successful.

balloob,
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@ZS what do you feel is getting more buggy or commercialized?

The alternatives you mentioned are either big tech or VC funded open source. Home Assistant is part of the nonprofit Open Home Foundation.

balloob, to random
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Smart Home Solver stopped by the Z-Wave alliance summit to educate the members on how to work with YouTubers 👌

dmakovec, to homeassistant
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Went against my golden rule and updated to a .zero release. Now the integration is buggered. sigh when will I learn?

balloob,
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@dmakovec this can happen on core installations if the integration is imported before we install the requirement. A restart will solve it.

balloob, to random
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Just out there doing Z-Wave range testing today with the Z-Wave alliance!

balloob,
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@claude_flammang 1.1km 😎

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