Oculus Quest Meet the Smart Home!
Hey Everyone! We hope you all had a great new years and holidays spent with the family! This past holiday season had some pretty cool toys going around. Cool toys to us mean more things to […]
Energy management research using Home Assistant
Two weeks ago we hosted the State of the Open Home. It included a presentation by Prof. Michael Kane and Maharsi Pathak from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. They presented about
The Open Home
The Open Home is our vision for the smart home. It defines the values that we put at the heart of every decision we make at Home Assistant. It’s woven into our architecture, licensing, community and
Demo: Genie, privacy-preserving virtual assistant by Stanford
Last week we hosted the State of the Open Home and it included a demo of Genie. Genie is an open, privacy-preserving virtual assistant by Stanford OVAL. During the impressive demo they showed it’s latest capabilities.
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Android 2021.12: Wear OS Beta!
Hey Everyone! It’s time for the December 2021 Android release. It has been a while since the last Android release as the team has been very busy working on many new and exciting features. To kick
Multi-server support in iOS 2021.12
Today we’re releasing Home Assistant companion app for iOS 2021.12. The big new feature: multiple server support. Find it in the app settings on iOS and Mac. Pro-tip: Swipe with three fingers left, right, or up
2021.12: New configuration menu, the button entity, and gorgeous area cards!
Home Assistant Core 2021.12, the final release of the year 2021; And I really think this release will contain a holiday gift for everyone! With the holiday season coming, it is time to slow down a
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New NetDaemon Release: Use C# to automate Home Assistant
Great news for Home Assistant users who’s preferred way of coding is C#: NetDaemon has just released a new version of their open source platform that allows you to use C# 10 for .Net 6 to
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100,000 installations in analytics!
Today we have reached a major milestone for Home Assistant Analytics: 100,000 users have opted in to be included! This is a big deal because it’s not enabled by default, users have to opt-in, and we
2021.11: Icon picker, device links and entity categories
Point eleven (.11), which means it is November! 🥶 (or 🏖 depending on where you are in this world, of course.) It also means: This is the second last release of the year… Hacktoberfest is over!
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