Hi, I'm Tom, a developer and smart home enthusiast.

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Let ChatGPT welcome you home

Using ChatGPT, Home Assistant and Node-RED, I'll show you how to set up an automation that welcomes you home a little different each day.

Featured projects

I recently built Terraforming Mars Plus, a webapp to track scores for the board game Terraforming Mars. Now, I'm taking this idea further and developing a generic board game tracking webapp.

On GitHub, you can find my own open source projects, like these:

  • pygti: A python library to access public transportation data like travel times from the hvv in Hamburg
  • stadtreinigung_hamburg: Another python library to access waste collection dates from the cleansing department in Hamburg.

Those two are actually the building blocks for an official integration and a custom component for Home Assistant.

While you are here

I added a new category to the page: Notes.

Notes will contain code snippets, small ideas and in general everything that is too short for a blog post but something I want to share with a wider audience.