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title: "Community Highlights"
description: Showcasing some of the cool projects and videos our community has come up with.
date: 2016-06-01 11:34:00 -0700
date_formatted: "June 1, 2016"
author: Paulus Schoutsen
author_twitter: balloob
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categories: Community Video
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Our community is amazingly helpful and creative. If you haven't been there yet, make sure to stop by our [chat room] and come hang out with us. In this blog post I want to highlight a few recent awesome projects and videos from the community.

### {% linkable_title SceneGen - cli for making scenes %}

[SceneGen] is a new command line utility developed by [Andrew Cockburn] that helps with creating scene configurations for Home Assistant. To use it, you put your house in the preferred state, run SceneGen and it will print the scene configuration for your current states.

### {% linkable_title Videos %}

[Nick Touran] has been working on integrating IR remotes with Home Assistant. He made it into a component which should be available in the next release which should arrive in a couple of days. In the meanwhile, he wrote up [a blog post] and has put out a video showing the new integration, very cool!

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Ben from [BRUH Automation] has put out another great video how to get started tracking your location in Home Assistant using MQTT and OwnTracks.

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Muhammed Kilic has created a video how to make your Home Assistant instance accessible from the internet using the free dynamic DNS service DuckDNS.

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[chat room]: https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant
[SceneGen]: https://github.com/acockburn/scenegen
[Andrew Cockburn]: https://github.com/acockburn
[BRUH Automation]: http://www.bruhautomation.com/
[Nick Touran]: https://partofthething.com
[a blog post]: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/?p=1010
