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About two months ago my phone kept buzzing with notifications. I got the kindest tweets after it was announced that I was joining Home Assistant as the first full-time UX designer. That enthusiasm is also reflected […]

October! I love this month! For most of you (just like me), it means winter is coming. We all go back inside. An excellent excuse to spent a bit more time on our smart homes, right?

To celebrate our 8th birthday we’re launching a crowdfunding campaign for Home Assistant Amber. We designed Home Assistant Amber from scratch for both beginners and home automation enthusiasts to be the easiest way to run Home

Last release we introduced Home Energy management, and we are so happy with all the reactions and response we have received ❤️! In this version we have added some much requested features to make it even

Renaming snapshot to backup “Snapshot” is a term that we have been using in the Supervisor since the beginning, but it’s not very descriptive for those that do not know what it is. Over the next

Happy August! ☀️ Home Assistant Core 2021.8 is here, and this is the release I have been looking forward to for months! There is so much exciting new stuff in here: I don’t know where to

TL; DR: We’re adding energy management and it’s awesome. Created two products to read out electricity meters: SlimmeLezer for P1 ports & Home Assistant Glow for activity LEDs. Upgraded most of the existing energy integrations to

Happy July, which means Home Assistant Core 2021.7! An interesting release, with a bunch of little goodies to make things easier in creating automations, scripts and doing templating. Those are things that in general, make me

The 27th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. But first I have one more announcement. My internship is (almost) over and

The 26th edition of the Home Assistant Community Highlights! Some interesting things popped up around our community, which we thought was worth sharing. Do you want to share something for the next edition? Information on how