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Update on KDE Home Automation (KIOT)

blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/update-on-kde-home-automation-kiot

This is a effectively a guest blogpost where I, as usual, take the credit for the work someone else has done. Last year ago set out making a home automation <--> Desktop Linux bridge over the Christmas holidays. The idea is that if you're using home…

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As a lover of both KDE and HomeAssistant, this is awesome! I'd love to be able to do things like make my living room lights go down when I star playing a video from a streaming website.

I;m wondering if this could be integrated with the new, updated Online Accounts?

EDIT: OOF! Just noticed I can't use this as I'm using Zigbee, not MQTT 😢

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For those of you running #gnome, Butler comes to the rescue:

"Hybrid native + web app for Home Assistant. Butler wraps your Home Assistant dashboard up in a native UI, integrating better with your OS."

github.com/cassidyjames/butler

It still lacks a few features, e.g. location services, notifications, or exposing device sensors, but I could imagine this is just a matter of time.

#homeassistant #homelab #smarthome




Kdenlive 25.12.0 released

kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.0

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 25.12.0, just in time for the holiday season. For this release, we concentrated on improving the user experience. Many of these changes were discussed during our very productive Berlin sprint…



This Week in Plasma: ambient light sensor support

blogs.kde.org/2025/12/20/this-week-in-plasma-ambient-light-sensor-support

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week many KDE contributors wound down their activities in preparation for some well-deserved rest. But that didn’t stop the merging of some impactful work anyway! This will be 2025’s year’s last This Week…




KDE PIM Sprint 2025 in Paris

www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/12/20/kde-pim-sprint-december-2025.html

Last weekend I attended the annual(ish) KDE Personal Information Management (PIM) sprint in Paris, to discuss and work on KDE’s infrastructure and applications for dealing with email, calendars and address books. And since this involved travelling, there…




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Building a Multi-Channel Pipette for Parallel Experimentation

One major reason for the high cost of developing new drugs and other chemicals is the sheer number of experiments involved; designing a single new drug can require synthesizing and …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2025/12/20/buildi…



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Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/10857



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Let's be clear here, Elon is using a neo nazi term to call for the ethnic cleansing of Europe.

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