On October 11, 2023, we were informed that an open-source contributor received a cease and desist letter from Mazda North American Operations (Mazda) regarding his library to connect with Mazda services. This library was used by the Home Assistant integration Mazda Connected Services, which he also maintained. A DMCA notice was sent to GitHub requesting […]

This year is Home Assistant’s Year of the Voice. It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant by speaking in their own language. We’ve got great news: wake words are finally here! After 4 chapters, we now have the final building block for voice in Home Assistant. In Chapter 1, we […]

Home Assistant Core 2023.10! 🎉 October! 🎃 It means we’ve just celebrated our birthday; we are now 10 years old! 🎂 In case you’ve missed our birthday YouTube stream with all the cool announcements, we’ve summed it all up in our 10 year Home Assistant blog post. Even more exciting news, as this is Home […]

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The […]

Hello all, this is Madelena. You may know me from some of my previous projects. 🙂 As you may have heard from our celebration for the 10th anniversary of Home Assistant, we are making some tweaks to our logo! This is no small feat, as the logo is a big part of the identity of […]

Back in 2021, we launched a crowdfunding campaign for Home Assistant Yellow. Home Assistant Yellow was our take on what a smart home hub should look like, with all the features we enthusiasts want. We’re very proud of Home Assistant Yellow, but at the same time, it has become clear that people just starting their […]

TL; DR: Home Assistant is 10 years old and the second most active open source project on GitHub. Nabu Casa is 5 years old. There are no investors and development of Home Assistant is sustainable. Home Assistant Cloud now supports custom domains for remote connections. The Open Home vision is updated and is now about […]

Join us on September 17 to look back on ten years of Home Assistant and hear some very special announcements… Watch on YouTube: Home Assistant 10th Anniversary Event #HA10 Visto en

Home Assistant Core 2023.9! 🎉 Frenck is enjoying a well earned holiday, so I’m taking care of the release this month. This month, on the 17th, it has been 10 years since Home Assistant started. We’ll be preparing a special event on the Home Assistant YouTube channel to celebrate, reflect and look ahead. We will […]

Home Assistant Core 2023.8! 🎉 Another month, another fine release of Home Assistant! This release is a bit more conservative after two absolutely packed releases in June and July. Many of us are enjoying summer holidays 🏖️. Pretty much all features in this release are absolutely amazing, and it is hard to pick a favorite. […]