Daniël
@danieldejong.io
🏡 I curate a weekly smart home newsletter
👨💻Creator and maintainer of Multiscrape and MeasureIt custom integrations for Home Assistant
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My xiaomi plant sensor does! (HHCCJCY01)
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
My xiaomi plant sensor does! (HHCCJCY01)
Fair take on the UI. That said, a well-set-up smart home barely needs the UI day-to-day.
If the frustration is with assistant responses: LLM integration helps a lot. If that’s already in place… yeah, something’s wrong 🙂
If the frustration is with assistant responses: LLM integration helps a lot. If that’s already in place… yeah, something’s wrong 🙂
January 9, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Fair take on the UI. That said, a well-set-up smart home barely needs the UI day-to-day.
If the frustration is with assistant responses: LLM integration helps a lot. If that’s already in place… yeah, something’s wrong 🙂
If the frustration is with assistant responses: LLM integration helps a lot. If that’s already in place… yeah, something’s wrong 🙂
Yeah that’s totally fine. I meant custom components like card-mod or browser-mod. Those tend to break with updates. Button card is very flexible but will cost a lot of time to get right.
January 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Yeah that’s totally fine. I meant custom components like card-mod or browser-mod. Those tend to break with updates. Button card is very flexible but will cost a lot of time to get right.
Warning: that rabbit hole is DEEP. 😅
Stick with default cards. They’re solid now and you won’t have to rebuild your dashboard every time a custom component breaks or css changes. (Now if only tile cards supported templates like mushroom does… 😫)
Stick with default cards. They’re solid now and you won’t have to rebuild your dashboard every time a custom component breaks or css changes. (Now if only tile cards supported templates like mushroom does… 😫)
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Warning: that rabbit hole is DEEP. 😅
Stick with default cards. They’re solid now and you won’t have to rebuild your dashboard every time a custom component breaks or css changes. (Now if only tile cards supported templates like mushroom does… 😫)
Stick with default cards. They’re solid now and you won’t have to rebuild your dashboard every time a custom component breaks or css changes. (Now if only tile cards supported templates like mushroom does… 😫)
Having watched enough of these projects unfold: this escalated exactly as expected 😅
January 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Having watched enough of these projects unfold: this escalated exactly as expected 😅
Sure, should I rename my newsletter to the Haunted Home Newsletter as well? 😋
And yes, mqtt is a simple protocol but can still be tricky... Good detective skills!
And yes, mqtt is a simple protocol but can still be tricky... Good detective skills!
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sure, should I rename my newsletter to the Haunted Home Newsletter as well? 😋
And yes, mqtt is a simple protocol but can still be tricky... Good detective skills!
And yes, mqtt is a simple protocol but can still be tricky... Good detective skills!
To be fair, rebooting is the first thing you try with anything Windows-related 😋
December 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
To be fair, rebooting is the first thing you try with anything Windows-related 😋
What a coincidence! All I can tell you is that I own an old Roborock which I really appreciate. It's cloud-dependent though..
December 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
What a coincidence! All I can tell you is that I own an old Roborock which I really appreciate. It's cloud-dependent though..
But I have the voice PE, and when that one starts pronouncing markdown... 😅
December 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
But I have the voice PE, and when that one starts pronouncing markdown... 😅
Bloody annoying when your smart home assistant starts talking in Markdown…
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Bloody annoying when your smart home assistant starts talking in Markdown…
Nice! I hope this was for the video and you can hide the device on the other side of the curtain? Which brand is it?
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Nice! I hope this was for the video and you can hide the device on the other side of the curtain? Which brand is it?
But now you're looking for a new vacuum 😊
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
But now you're looking for a new vacuum 😊
You should look into the valetudo project, though it requires rooting your vacuum: valetudo.cloud
Valetudo
Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
valetudo.cloud
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You should look into the valetudo project, though it requires rooting your vacuum: valetudo.cloud
Didn’t expect pet appliances to be this progressive already — Matter included.
Came across something very much in this category while curating my Smart Home Newsletter last week 👀
Came across something very much in this category while curating my Smart Home Newsletter last week 👀
December 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Didn’t expect pet appliances to be this progressive already — Matter included.
Came across something very much in this category while curating my Smart Home Newsletter last week 👀
Came across something very much in this category while curating my Smart Home Newsletter last week 👀
Oh nice, thought I was an oldtimer starting somewhere in the 0.twenties versions!
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Oh nice, thought I was an oldtimer starting somewhere in the 0.twenties versions!
That's their website. Maybe documentation?
December 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
That's their website. Maybe documentation?
Did the Home Assistant or the Minisforum piss you of? I have the Venus UM480 and am very satisfied!
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Did the Home Assistant or the Minisforum piss you of? I have the Venus UM480 and am very satisfied!
Put an LLM in the voice pipeline and you can even tweak the level of 'pedanticness'!
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Put an LLM in the voice pipeline and you can even tweak the level of 'pedanticness'!
You only missed like 24+ releases 😉
December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You only missed like 24+ releases 😉
In my new smart home feed, I focus on - but don’t limit to - community posts about:
Home Assistant · HomeKit · SmartThings · Google Home · Matter · Zigbee · Philips Hue · Alexa · and more
Still tuning, so let me know when you see something that shouldn't be there!
Home Assistant · HomeKit · SmartThings · Google Home · Matter · Zigbee · Philips Hue · Alexa · and more
Still tuning, so let me know when you see something that shouldn't be there!
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In my new smart home feed, I focus on - but don’t limit to - community posts about:
Home Assistant · HomeKit · SmartThings · Google Home · Matter · Zigbee · Philips Hue · Alexa · and more
Still tuning, so let me know when you see something that shouldn't be there!
Home Assistant · HomeKit · SmartThings · Google Home · Matter · Zigbee · Philips Hue · Alexa · and more
Still tuning, so let me know when you see something that shouldn't be there!
Haha, not only that, it comes with its own OS!!
December 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Haha, not only that, it comes with its own OS!!