It’s that time of the year. The time when it’s cold outside, it’s cozy and warm inside, we’re spending time with friends and family, and time for big companies to
Home Assistant for everyone
With Home Assistant, we want to help people live their life, while helping out in the background. I wrote about this in 2016 when I detailed my view on the
State of the Union 2019: Recap
On November 13, 2019, 150 Home Assistant community members gathered at ING in Amsterdam for the Home Assistant State of the Union 2019. That evening, Paulus Schoutsen (founder Home Assistant)
Almond & Ada: privacy-focused voice assistant
TL;DR: Teamed up with Almond, available in Home Assistant 0.102. Introducing Ada, voice assistant powered by Home Assistant integrations. Available as Hass.io add-on. New beta speech-to-text and text-to-speech service for
0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor
Home Assistant 0.102 is here ! It’s been quite the trip as we hosted our annual State of the Union last week, which took a lot of energy away from
0.101: Airly, Apprise, Sinch, Solar-Log, Microsoft Teams
Hacktoberfest It is almost the end of Hacktoberfest, and boy, it was a good one. We had a total of 1318 PRs merged in the last month. And most of
R.I.P Hassbian
It’s time for what was once the simplest way to install Home Assistant to retire. R.I.P Hassbian Some of you will probably wonder why Hassbian is being retired and I’ll
0.99: Withings, Device Automations, launch Home Assistant Cast from Python.
Happy 6th birthday to us! Yep, it’s been 6 years since the first commit, 6 years since we started our quest for a local and privacy foucsed home automation hub.
Happy 6th Birthday
Dear community, happy sixth birthday. It has been six amazing years Thanks to all the people working on the core of Home Assistant. Thanks to all the people working on
0.98: Improved entity management, options and Home Assistant Alerts
It’s time for the 0.98 release. As Home Assistant grows, some features will sometimes be left partially implemented, leaving things to be desired. In this release we’ve been focusing on