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@frenck.social

A Human. Being. Him/He. Dad. Open Sourcerer. GitHub Star 🌟 #HomeAssistant lead engineer. Passionate. Dedicated. Motto: Make a positive difference every single day. Be the change ❀

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a man in a suit and tie with the word very nice behind him ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the word very nice behind him
06.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - frenck/home-assistant-doom: But... Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Yes it can! But... Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Yes it can! Contribute to frenck/home-assistant-doom development by creating an account on GitHub.

#DOOm lΓ€uft auf ..

einem Home AssistantDashboard https://github.com/frenck/home-assistant-doom

06.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"it's a bonus that you'd work with me 😏"

That is true though... 🫢

06.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Home Foundation Jobs Open Home Foundation Jobs

πŸš€ I've just opened 2 new roles at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on @home-assistant.io!

πŸ–₯️ Frontend Engineer
πŸ” Security Engineer

Fully remote. Full-time. Open source every day.
Best job in the world. It changed my life. This is your chance to change yours.

πŸ”— openhomefoundation.org/jobs

06.03.2026 09:22 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Meet the speakers of SOTOH26! πŸŽ™

They'll be taking to the stage on Wednesday, 8 April to celebrate building in the open with our community, share successes and get excited about what's coming next.

Join us online or in person. Limited tickets available: sotoh.openhomefoundation.org/

#HomeAssistant

05.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Wanted to install a Reolink garden cam. Found this instead πŸ˜¬πŸ”Œ

vm.tiktok.com/ZGdukWvw7/

03.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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So... can Home Assistant run DOOM? It started with a DOOM t-shirt at a meetup. The real question? Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Two hours later, I had a fully working DOOM integration for Home Assistant and was fighting demons on my smart home dashboard.

Can @home-assistant.io run DOOM? Turns out: yes.

I built an integration that runs the real DOOM (1993) inside a dashboard, including some sensor entities..
The entire thing was written by AI in under 2 hours. I didn't write a single line of code.

Full story: frenck.dev/home-assista...

01.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Kinda or crashes? πŸ€”

I hope it at least came up in emergency mode?

22.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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An amazing Home Assistant cake at @home-assistant.io Community Meetup in Cologne yesterday! πŸ€©πŸ°πŸ˜‹

Isn’t the our community the best? 🫢

#HomeAssistant #HomeBakeAutomation #SmartHome

22.02.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry to say… no AI dubbing in this one. That is my real voice. I live on the German border actually.

22.02.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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On my way to the Home Assistant Community Meetup in Cologne! πŸš—

Excited to meet everyone! πŸ€—

#HomeAssistant #Community

21.02.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hehe hence I have a keypad

15.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I said for years I probably wouldn’t go for smart locks. Yet here we are πŸ˜…

Installing the NUKI Smart Lock Ultra + Keypad 2 with @home-assistant.io soon.

Curious about real world experience. What are your do’s and don’ts? Got automations that actually improved daily life?

#SmartHome #HomeAssistant

15.02.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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And we're particularly excited about using this to help open-source maintainers. When we showed this to @frenck.social, the maintainer of Home Assistant, he wrote a workflow that reads the traces for bugs and figures out if they originate in the HA codebase or not.

True noise elimination for OSS.

13.02.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“¦ A fresh package arrived!

I still get that β€œkid on a birthday” feeling when the mail shows up with a box of new goodies…
This one from Signify has me pretty excited πŸ€—

14.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the Open Home Foundation team - Utrecht Β· Luma We'd love for you to join us 😎 Come hang out with people from Home Assistant, Music Assistant, and ESPHome for a casual meetup right here in Utrecht! πŸ₯³ This…

Come to our the @home-assistant.io community meetup in Utrecht! We opened up way more spots, so more people can join!

Lot of us are there, including famous ESPHome people!

See you tomorrow? 🍻

luma.com/wgktnnxp?tk=...

02.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Arrived in Brussels! πŸš‚ Even with the trains strike happening here in Belgium πŸ™ˆ

Excited for #FOSDEM! πŸŽ‰

See you there?

30.01.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I decided to give UniFi’s Teleport a shot while traveling. In a 4 hour train ride right now; working remotely on my MacBook.

First impression: meh… it works; but it for sure needs a lot of improvements around recovering from flaky 5G internet connections…

30.01.2026 08:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Home Assistant Logo - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld Download this free 3D print file designed by Piitaya. Home Assistant multi-color logo. It need AMS to be printed.

Not really, there are many designs out there for HA related stuff. This one is by Pittaya (creator of Mushroom): makerworld.com/en/models/14...

27.01.2026 10:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let it run overnight and woke up to this beauty! 🏠✨ 5+ hours of printing later, my new office has some proper @home-assistant.io decoration. Now to find the perfect spot in my streaming background… 🎬

27.01.2026 07:12 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

As an ex-XS4ALL-employee myself, I do love their values.... The reality is I have been basically been issue free with my current provider for years (except for now), and I'm simply not able to justify the price difference because of that.

21.01.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh boy… in my case… the connection really drops or gets bad during those episodes. Is has affected me in video calls quite a bit :(

19.01.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meh… I am experiencing Odido connectivity issues the past day at my new home… kinda cool UniFi logs and warns for it though!

19.01.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
My CES 2026 disaster: three attempts, zero success
My CES 2026 disaster: three attempts, zero success Well, this wasn't the CES content I planned.I tried three times to get to Las Vegas for CES 2026. Three times. And I'm recording this from the snow in the Ne...

Well, CES didn't happen for me this year.

After three flight cancellations (broken plane, crew limits, lost instrumentation on the runway), I'm still in the Netherlands. My luggage made it to Vegas though, which is the most hilarious part of this whole mess.

Choo choo from the frozen NetherlandsπŸš‚β„οΈ

08.01.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is connected to ethernet, but nothing...

I've requested a transfer @ SolarEdge... Now I wait :)

22.12.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I run my Home Assistant Operating System directly on a Beelink Mini S12 Pro (on bare metal, no Promox).

22.12.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's go! πŸš€

Time to bootstrap a fresh Home Assistant instance for my new home ✨

@home-assistant.io #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

21.12.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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New house came with a SolarEdge inverter β˜€οΈ

Plot twist: can't access it. SetApp login fails, Wi-Fi credentials on the side are useless.

Anyone reset one of these as a new homeowner? Or am I stuck pointing at it hoping it works?

#Solar #SmartHome

21.12.2025 10:50 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

I replaced a R**g doorbell with a Reolink PoE one the other day for the Home Assistant integration. Tailscale means I get notifications with photos from HA with nothing leaving my internal network. Great!

20.12.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Installed the Reolink Doorbell @ my new place. All prepping for my fresh new Home Assistant powered smart home. Besides... it is kinda nice to know that someone is at the door πŸ™ˆ

#SmartHome #Reolink #doorbellcameras #homeassistant

20.12.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0