balloob
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Founder of Home Assistant & Nabu Casa.
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Comment · 16 days ago
This feature has been around for 5 years... https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/blob/cur...
Comment · 1 month ago
That's exactly how it's build. Nabu Casa has never been able to see any user data. You can read more about it here https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/2650888200758...
Comment · 6 months ago
WebSerial just landed in Firefox nightly! https://bsky.app/profile/paulusschoutsen.nl/post/3mjfdx3ujta...
Comment · 6 months ago
Kalman filters are great! For people interested of one used in practice, it's used by Sendspin to keep speakers in sync, even works in browsers on phones on 5G etc.
Open the Sendspin live demo in your browser: https://www.sendspin-audio.com/#live-demo
Some more info on Kalman implementation here https://github.com/Sendspin/time-filter/blob/main/docs%2Fthe...
Comment · 8 months ago
Home Assistant [1] has been written using web components and it has been great. In 13 years that we've been around, we never had to do a full rewrite of the frontend but always have been able to gradually update components as needed. Not being tied to the JavaScript industry upgrade cycle (which is short!), has allowed us to pick our own priorities.
We currently use Lit for the framework on top (you do need one, that's fine). For state management we just pass props around, works great and allows community to easily develop custom cards that can plug into our frontend.
The downside is lack of available components. Although we're not tied to a single framework, and can pick any web component framework, the choices are somewhat limited. We're currently on material components and migrating some to Shoelace.
I talked more about our approach to frontend last year at the Syntax podcast[2].
[1] https://www.home-assistant.io [2] https://syntax.fm/show/880/creator-of-home-assistant-web-com...
Comment · 8 months ago
This has never been the case. Custom elements are DOM Elements and so are just JavaScript objects. Just like you can do aEl.disabled = true, you can set any prop to any type of value.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does the new app make it easier for users to expose the Ollama daemon on the network (and mdns discovery )? It’s still trickier than needed for Home Assistant users to get started with Ollama (which tends to run on a different machine).
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds very cool! Also interested in how to follow progress. Is it using ESPHome?
Comment · 1 year ago
We don't want to come to rely on donations and have to show Wikipedia-style beg banners in our app (I would personally hate to see that myself).
So with the limited resources that we have, we currently only consider bigger donations valued $10k or more. We've had monetary donations from DuckDuckGo and Espressif so far.