Home Assistant Community in Cologne
The Home Assistant Community Day in Cologne was awesome. We’re doing it again next year!
On May 24th, 2025, the Home Assistant Community Day took place. A global meetups on the same day with and for us Home Assistant nerds 🤓
Since there wasn’t a meetup near me, I took the opportunity to organize one in Cologne. Die Wohngemeinschaft warmly welcomed us.
I immediately reached out to a few people via email and posted in the German communities of Simon42 and Community Smart Home. I believe we also got a bunch of sign-ups through the Meetup platform.
Thanks to all the participants!
We ended up being around 50 people!
A big thank you to everyone who came — it was a great day with amazing conversations! Without you, it would’ve been pretty boring just standing around on my own 😉
I also received some great feedback on my PokyPow project!
Here’s a mini vlog by Flo from Flotomation:
Other YouTubers and content creators were there as well:
- Simon from simon42
- Matthias from haus:automation
- Flo from Flotomation
- Tristan from Tristans Smartes Heim
- Thorsten from Thorsten-Voice
- Daniel from SmartHome yourself
And here are some pictures:
Thanks to Athom (now IoTorero)
Big thanks to Athom (now IoTorero)!
They sponsored tons of devices, so everyone got to take home a new smart home gadget.
I’m just thrilled that these run with ESPHome and can be integrated into Home Assistant so easily. Just enter the Wi-Fi password and connect directly to Home Assistant. No app, no nonsense — that’s how a smart home should be.
Here’s the link to Athom’s online shop:
Next Year
I received great feedback and had a lot of fun, so I’ll definitely organize this again.
See you next year at the latest!
If you want to join us next time in Cologne, Germany, I would suggest that you subscribe to Smarthütte.de
Smarthütte.de is run by a friend and me. We’re currently exploring opportunities to turn Home Assistant into a side business in Germany.
