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2025 Guide: Getting Started with ESPHome Device Builder in Home Assistant

Learn how to install and use the ESPHome Device Builder add-on in Home Assistant to flash and manage your ESP32 and ESP8266 devices.

Jan 29, 20256 min read

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7 tips for a successful home automation

For the last eight years I’ve been busy improving with home automations, also called domotica. The time that I invest varies strongly per period, sometimes I…

May 28, 20194 min readHome Automation

SUGCON India 2019 interview

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May 27, 20191 min readPublic Speaking

My home automation setup

Let's start with the first post about home automation. I’m pretty happy with my current home automation setup. In this post I would like to share my current…

May 22, 20194 min readHome Automation

Install Node-Red on openHABian (openHABian PI)

Node Red is available as an extension on Openhabian, this short post will explain you how to do this. Open Putty and start SSH session to your OpenHabian…

May 16, 20191 min readHome Automation

Sharing is caring

During my professional career I’ve always been an advocate of sharing knowledge. Share what you’ve learned so others can learn from it, this way at the end…

May 12, 20191 min readHome Automation

Full headless experiences with Sitecore Omni™

In the keynote during Sitecore Symposium 2018 in Orlando we introduced Sitecore Omni™, a range of products that support headless scenarios for the different…

Dec 12, 20186 min readFront-End

What’s new in Sitecore 9.1: Experience Platform

This post is part of the What’s new in Sitecore 9.1 series, Sitecore 9.1 has a lot of exciting innovation and value that will help our customers get to…

Nov 12, 201811 min readAnalytics

What's new in Sitecore 9.1: Content Management

During Sitecore Symposium I presented the Overview of 9.1 together with Mark Groves, Senior Director Product Management. This blogpost will cover the…

Oct 31, 20189 min readEvents

What’s new in Sitecore 9.1: a technical overview

I just returned home from a great Sitecore Symposium and an MVP summit. I had the honors to present the Overview of 9.1 together with Mark Groves, Senior…

Oct 18, 20184 min readCommunity

Sitecore Hackathon Interview

The Sitecore Hackathon is an community event organized by Akshay Sura and supported by Sitecore Technical Marketing. The results of the Hackathon 2018 where…

Jul 30, 20181 min readCommunity