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ESPHome 2022.12 is out! It includes significant performance increases for the Bluetooth proxies.

If you have existing proxies: you will need to update your Bluetooth proxies once over serial to get full benefit. Future updates can be done over OTA again.

https://esphome.github.io/bluetooth-proxies/

ESPHome Bluetooth Proxies
ESPHome Bluetooth Proxies

Expand the Bluetooth range of your smart home using ESPHome devices.

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Defining success for the Open Home Voice Assistant

https://building.open-home.io/success-of-the-open-home/

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Success of the Open Home

Welcome to the April edition of the Open Home newsletter, the place to learn about the latest and greatest things for your smart home that improve its privacy, choice, and durability.

It is Home Assistant's Year of the Voice and the goal is to let everyone control their home in

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The Home Assistant subreddit is blacked out until at least June 14th to protest Reddit’s recent API pricing rollout as well as their poor treatment of all third party app developers but especially Christian Selig of Apollo. Please visit our forums or chat here on Discord in the meantime

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All services can now be translated, and we need help translating them before the next release 🙏

https://twitter.com/Frenck/status/1679755168735166464

Franck Nijhof (@Frenck)

Good news! @home_assistant lots of effort has been put into making everything translatable 🌎

With so many new translations, we need your help! 🙏

Want to help translating? You only need your browser, and no programming skills are required!

(This is an Twitter thread)

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Want to know how we're growing the Open Home? Check out the latest newsletter. In your inbox now, or on the web: https://building.open-home.io/growing-the-open-home/

Building the Open Home
Growing the Open Home

Welcome to the July edition of the Open Home newsletter, the place to learn about the latest and greatest things for your smart home that improve its privacy, choice, and durability.

If you are reading this before July 20, add Chapter 3 of Home Assistant's Year of the Voice to

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Come celebrate our 10th anniversary with us! #HA10

Join us on September 17 to look back on ten years of Home Assistant and hear some very special announcements...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLV6lJLzSU

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Home Assistant 10th Anniversary Event #HA10

Celebrate Home Assistant's 10th anniversary with us! Our founder, Paulus Schoutsen, uploaded the first version of Home Assistant to GitHub on the 17th of September, 2013. So join us this 17th of September to look back on an incredible ten years of Home Assistant and hear some very special announcements...

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We just announced a new Home Assistant Cloud feature during the 10th-anniversary event. Now you can have custom domains for remote connection!

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We’re very happy to reveal the update to our logo! We will slowly roll it out over the coming weeks.

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Home Assistant Green is our new affordable smart home hub. It’s designed to be the easiest way for everyone to start with Home Assistant, for just $99.

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Nabu Casa is looking for a community manager, a copywriter, and a designer to join the communications team and work on Home Assistant. If that sounds interesting to you, please take a look and apply! We'd love it if we could fill these positions with people who are part of our community.
https://remote.com/jobs?query=nabu+casa

Browse remote jobs

Explore open roles at global companies. Enjoy a more transparent job search.

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Ohai! Here, I brought you a formal announcement about me and my role for Home Assistant. InnocentFluent https://community.home-assistant.io/t/an-introduction-your-new-community-social-media-manager/693623

Home Assistant Community
An introduction: Your new Community & Social Media Manager!

Hey, everyone! As one can probably guess from my username, I’m Missy (she/they) and I am the new Community and Social Media Manager for Home Assistant! 🎉 I started last week and have been chatting with some of you in the HA Discord server already but consider this a formal introduction. Before I am called out for it, yes, this is copy/pasted acr...

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Thanks to extensive testing by users like yourselves, we're very excited to announce Raspberry Pi 5 support with the release of HAOS 12! 🎉 https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/02/26/home-assistant-os-12-support-for-raspberry-pi-5/

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Raspberry Pi 5 support and more in Home Assistant OS release 12 & S...

HAOS 12 adds support for Raspberry Pi 5 and ODROID-M1S boards, with the Linux kernel updated to 6.6. Additionally, backups have become faster, and add-ons can now signal when they should not be aut...

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SAVE THE DATE, Y'ALL! On April 20th, we will be hosting the State of the Open Home. We're bringing in the big guns with speakers from Home Assistant, WLED, ESPHome, Zigbee2MQTT, Z-Wave JS, and Rhasspy. You don't want to miss this! casita

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Actions speak louder than words. Check out today’s stream to see how we’re taking action.

Introducing the Open Home Foundation - a new non-profit we just launched.
🛡️ To fight for the principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
⚖️ To tilt the balance back towards users and protect against open-source becoming abandonware.
🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 To collab with critical external projects like Z-Wave JS, WLED, Rhasspy, and Zigbee2MQTT.

Read on about what this means:
https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-home-foundation/

Announcing the Open Home Foundation – Open Home Foundation

Actions speak louder than words. Which is why we created the Open Home Foundation to secure the radical principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.

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Since it's not in the blog, I wanted to make sure I posted in here something that I talked about during the release stream yesterday!

Discord changes are coming! Yes, change is hard, but I promise I am trying to make it as smooth as possible - not an easy feat when I have to appease 130,000 members. 😅 I am currently working on improved roles with icons (just to mess with your object permanence), adding in forum channels where they make sense, implement a "show off" channel (much like the one in the ESPHome server), adding in more off topic channels (with specific topics), and adding in a welcome onboarding page. This really is just an overview of what will happen.

What does this mean? When will this happen? Well, since @ruby pebble forced me into committing to a date on stream yesterday 😬, changes will likely be in mid-June. I will need to shut down the server for a day as I move people from one role to their new equivalent and make the necessary channel changes. Based on server activity this year, we're the least active here on Sundays, so the change will happen on a Sunday. Lastly, I will give about a week's notice when the shut down will happen.

Questions? Ask me in #the-water-cooler! I'll answer the best I can - but know that I am still working on the initial draft of changes and things could shift. BlushFluent

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Nabu Casa is looking for more new colleagues! Want to join us? Click here if you're an Android developer located in Europe

Android Developer (Europe) at Nabu Casa

We are looking for
Nabu Casa is seeking a passionate Android developer to join the Home Assistant engineering team as a full-time Android developer. As a team member, you will be responsible for helping extend existing and new features of our Home Assistant Companion Android app that aligns with ou

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SURPRISE! 😬 I am making a few changes to the server today ahead of the full revamp. I am shutting down the DEVELOPMENT category and implementing the changes I have designed over the course of the next hour or so. I recognize this may interrupt conversations, I'll let you know how to continue those. I will update this post once changes are complete.

BUT WHY???
This was requested by Frenck for a small quality of life improvement here for the developers. The change is relatively quick, only requiring me to lock down the old channels and implement the new ones.

Where are the rest of the changes? I thought they would be done by now!
Well, yes, so did I. Unfortunately some sickness and time off impacted what I could complete and set me back a bit. I feel I’m on track to have things completed in a couple weeks now, but it’s still a rough date.

What’s next?
Once the change is complete, I will post in the newly created announcement channel for developers what changes were made. This should help y’all understand where things went and reduce any confusion around the change. That does not mean, however, that people won’t be confused - please remember some community members aren’t as plugged in as others. :3 We do expect that some conversations will be interrupted in this process but believe a little pain for this change is acceptable.

I appreciate everyone’s ongoing patience and understanding with this process! To keep you distracted while I make these changes, check out the spontaneous redesign of our home page and drop feedback in ⁠#the-water-cooler. I know it’s been a long while, but it’s getting quite close to being ready and I am so excited to get things implemented soon. 😀

**EDIT: IT'S DONE! **Head over to #developers to check out the new changes. ironmouseHYPE

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Our friends at Apollo Automation are doing a live stream TONIGHT at 5:00PM Pacific / 8:00PM Eastern! agoogletada You can catch it on their YouTube channel or in the Apollo Automation Discord server . You can expect to hear about progress on new sensors, website redesign and rebranding, partnership updates, hardware updates, facility and equipment updates, and an update on the AIR-1 PCB WiFi issue. I bet the guys would love to see you there! BongoCatEyes

(FIXED - Invite should work but the embed is wonky. Here is their server invite: https://discord.com/invite/gErG99h5 .)
Will fix Discord link shortly.)

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NEW JOB OPENING AT NABU CASA - A Partnership Manager to run our partner programs, like Works With Home Assistant! Do you have experience with:

🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Negotiating and closing partnership deals?
👥 Open-source communities and values?

We'd love to talk to you! 👇🏼 https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nabucasa/593d1691-f189-4e0e-a5e0-c070876af77d

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Designers 👩🏼‍🎨 and dashboard card developers 🧑🏿‍💻 - this stream is for you! Join us next Wednesday for Dashboards Chapter 2 on YouTube (or X, FB, or LinkedIn) to learn how you can contribute and help rebuild our dashboard cards together! Don't forget to click the Notify me button on YouTube so you don't miss out. 😌 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmXLxQPr1o

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After 2 successful years of Works with Home Assistant under Nabu Casa, the program is now part of the Open Home Foundation! 🙌🏻

Read more about the changes we're doing to the program to work towards building a better hardware ecosystem for smart homes. 👇🏼
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/08/08/works-with-home-assistant-becomes-part-ohf/

Home Assistant
Works with Home Assistant becomes part of the Open Home Foundation

A number of changes to the program are looking to build a better hardware ecosystem for the smart home.

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‼️ We're looking to the Home Assistant community to help us improve the accuracy of microWakeWord! Include the other household members, we know you aren't the only one who wants to talk to your smart home. 😉

All it takes is your voice & a few minutes of your time on a phone or computer! 🙏🏻 https://ohf-voice.github.io/wake-word-collective/

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Wake Word Collective - Open Home Foundation

Help create a wake word dataset

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During today's release party, we talked about a couple positions we're hiring for. If you are an expert in either of these spaces, we'd love to hear from you! casitalove

A Node.js Dev in Central or Eastern timezones
A Product Manager in Eastern or European timezones

As always, you can find all of our openings here 👇🏼

Nabu Casa Jobs

Nabu Casa Jobs

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It's Home Assistant's 11th Anniversary!! agoogletada agooglecake casitalove

We're live in 2 hours over on YouTube, followed by a live Q&A in our new Community Stage! Come join us as we celebrate the community (that's you all!) - how it's evolved over the past decade and a few plans moving forward.

Can't wait to see you there!! 👇🏼
https://www.youtube.com/live/iE8yFUvQ2e4

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Home Assistant 11th Anniversary Celebration #HA11

Join us for our anniversary celebration, Home Assistant is turning 11! This year we're celebrating our community - come watch how the community has evolved o...

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‼️ In case you missed it, we'll be at GitHub Universe '24 and we're hosting a community meetup! 🥳 Will you be in San Francisco on October 26th and want to hang out with Paulus, Frenck, and Missy? Register by scanning the QR code below or clicking here to get on the list of attendees!

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📢 JOB ALERT: Android Developer @ Nabu Casa!

Are you an Android user with experience leading app development efforts, an active Home Assistant user, and excited by the thought of being our first full time Android Dev? Send us your resume! 👇🏼 https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nabucasa/3009b5ac-41b8-4344-acb2-b6e432821f54

Our First Android Developer

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Nabu Casa is seeking our first passionate Android developer to join the Home Assistant engineering team as a full-time Android developer. As a team member, you will be responsible for helping extend existing and new features of our Home Assistant Companion Android app that aligns with our roadmap and reviewing contributions f...

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As we continue to grow and evolve, so does our commitment to making Home Assistant more inclusive, accessible, and aligned with the diverse needs of our community. To that end, we’re launching an annual survey — and we hope you’ll take part! https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/16/community-survey-2024/

Home Assistant
Understanding Our Community: The 2024 Home Assistant Survey

Today we launch our annual survey of our community, the insights gained will help us make Home Assistant better reflect all our users.

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👋🏻 Hi, everyone! We’re switching some things up with the 2025.6 release.

tl;dr - 2025.6 beta testing will be from May 26th to June 11th; 2025.6 release is moving from June 4th to the 11th.

This month, instead of starting the beta a week ahead of release on Wednesday, we’re starting it 2 days earlier on Monday the 26th. But that’s not all - we’re also extending the beta testing period for the 2025.6 release! Instead of releasing our monthly build on the first Wednesday, we’ll be releasing 2025.6 a week later on June 11th.

This means 11 extra days of beta testing! 🙌🏻

Why the change?

Well, the Open Home Foundation is hosting a summit in Dublin, Ireland during the first week of June! 😎 We didn’t want to skip this release because of it, but we also didn’t want to make it feel rushed as we gather together in person. We felt like that wouldn’t be fair to y’all.

See y’all in the #beta channel on Monday! 👏🏻

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📣 The Open Home Foundation is hiring a Node.js Engineer under the Ecosystem department - this person will help us build the device database we're working on. Are you:

✅ Based in Europe?
✅ Experienced in Typescript?
✅ A contributor to open source projects?

We'd love to hear more from you! Apply here. 😌

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📣 The Open Home Foundation is also hiring a Talent Acquisition & HR Specialist for the Back-Office team! Are you located in Europe & have:

✅ Recruited technical & non-technical roles?
✅ Worked w/ remote teams?
✅ Sourcing techniques beyond LinkedIn?

Tell us more, apply today! blobnote

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In September, we're celebrating our 12th Birthday! This year, we're doing something new - we want to share YOUR stories. 👏🏻

Does Home Assistant help you in unexpected ways? Do you know of or have projects that inspire others? Fill out this Form and tell us about it! 😌

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The Open Home Foundation has more open positions! These roles are under our Ecosystem department which is responsible for the development of projects under the OHF umbrella like ESPHome, Voice, and Music Assistant. Here's what we have for you:

🔹 Frontend Engineer
🔹 Integrations Engineer
🔹 Protocol Engineer
🔹 Python/C++ Engineer

If you're located in Europe and you think you'd fit in one of these, we'd love to hear from you! 😊

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We have more open roles at the Open Home Foundation! 👏🏻 Before jumping into the new ones, the positions for the Ecosystem team posted last week are still open! All roles are open to those who are currently based and eligible to work within Europe.

These roles are on the Marketing team - this team is responsible for connecting the foundation's projects together.

These roles are on the Product & Design team - this team is responsible for the success of the foundation's projects including software and hardware, and their strategic evolution.

If any of these sound like a good fit for you, submit your application today! 😎

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Almost 12 years after the very first Home Assistant commit (4 more days!), Nick has beat me while doing some ESPHome fixes. He is now the contributor with the most commits in the Home Assistant core repository. Congratulations @stark spear! 🎉

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Our friends at Nabu Casa are hiring a full-time Customer Service Agent to join their remote team! 👏🏻

If you're located in Canada, UK, Spain, Norway, or Sweden and the role sounds like a good fit, they'd love to hear from you. Apply today! 😎

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📣 The Open Home Foundation is expanding! We're looking for a Community Lead to lead the ✨newly created✨ Community department. If you have:

🔹 Experience leading teams
🔹 Built successful OSS communities
🔹 Created DevRel strategies

...& have European residency, apply today! Clappy

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If you've followed our live streams, you may have heard about us building Home Assistant in the open. We've taken a lot of the discussions the team has behind the scenes and put them into a channel behind a (now previously) role-gated channel - #1346914401508392980. Lately, this is where contributors and the foundation's engineering & product teams have been collaborating on the direction of the project.

Today, we're making that channel read-only for @/everyone in the server. 🥳 Want to see the latest in dashboards? Check out the conversations happening in https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1351536906437005313. Clappy Curious about the work being done on the device database? You can see how that project's moving along in https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1361754948949512203. ChildeCool

If you would like to contribute your skills or voice to the conversations, head to the https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1346952081881436331 thread to see how to assign yourself either the Developer or Designer role to enable the ability to chat in the Developer category.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not where people ask for support. You can find where to post your support issues in #find-support. 🙏

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Our friends at Nabu Casa are looking to hire the first member of their new Marketing team, a Product Marketing Specialist! 🎉

This person will help establish processes and set the tone for future marketing activities at Nabu Casa. Clappy If you're located in Europe, have proven experience in marketing roles across multiple functions, and think this sounds like your next adventure, apply today!

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We have a couple new contract positions open at the Open Home Foundation! agoogletada These roles are for the Ecosystems team to work on ESPHome. If you are a:

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It's a holiday surprise! 🎄 Join the Music Assistant team on December 17 @ 12:00pm PT / 3:00pm ET / 21:00 CET to celebrate the release of Music Assistant 2.7!

Meet new faces & see what we've cooked up since the last blog in March. Hit that 🔔 on YouTube to get notified when they're live!

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Music Assistant 2.7 Release party

We're excited to introduce to you all a new recurring live stream event from the Music Assistant team! 🎉 These new events are scheduled to happen with every release of Music Assistant (once per quarter) and we look forward to y'all joining us on this kick-off release party for Music Assistant 2.7. 😌

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We're winding down 2025 with another job opening at the Open Home Foundation! 🥳

We're looking for a Marketing Copywriter to join as the Marketing team's second copywriter. If you have proven experience with writing technical content in multiple formats and located in Europe, send us your application today!

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Happy new year, everyone! 🥳 To kick off 2026, we're excited to share that our commercial partner, Nabu Casa, has two new open roles. 👏🏼 Positions currently open are:

Both roles will work on Nabu Casa's Home Assistant Cloud service - the Backend Developer role will focus on the service side while the Senior PM will help with strategy for both the Cloud service and Nabu Casa hardware. 😎

If either of these sound like a good fit for you (and you're located in the regions listed), submit your application today!

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Tickets for State of the Open Home are on sale NOW! 🎟️

Your chance to join our live audience has arrived! Be part of the inspiring conversations, lively debate, and creative energy that flows when Open Home advocates get together!

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State of the Open Home - Open Home Foundation

Join us in Utrecht on April 8 for State of the Open Home 2026. Your chance to celebrate, connect, and discover what's next - visit our site to learn more!

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If you missed the 2026.3 release party, the Open Home Foundation is hiring! We're looking for a:

  • Partnership Manager (residency in Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia or New Zealand)
  • Frontend Engineer (European residency)
  • Security Engineer (European residency)
    If any of these sound like a good fit for you, we'd love to hear from you - send us your application today! Not quite a fit for these roles? Watch our jobs page for new openings, there may be one for you in the future. 😌
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Nabu Casa, an Open Home Foundation commercial partner, is also hiring! They're looking for a Backend Developer based in Canada to join their Cloud & Infrastructure team working primarily on Home Assistant Cloud services. If you have at least 5 years experience in back-end development and experience with cloud services, submit your application today!

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The Open Home Foundation / Home Assistant team is running a research study to better understand people’s opinions on the “Works with …” compatibility badges on smart home products.

We’re looking to interview people and gather insights that will help us improve how compatibility is communicated, so that the badges are clearer for users.

The interviews are online, take ~1 hour, and are focused on your opinions and expectations (no technical knowledge required).

If you’re interested in participating, please fill out this short form.

We’re interested in hearing from smart home users as well as people who live in a smart home but are not the main person setting things up (for example: partners, family members, or housemates)
If you live with someone like that, we’d really appreciate it if you share this with them as well - their perspective is valuable and often underrepresented.

Thanks for your time and hoping to hear from you!

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Tomorrow evening (March 17) we're hosting two meetups! The first one to start is in Tokyo, Japan https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1482986628376035361 - meet with Paulus, Marcel, and Ingo along with other community members! Then we have one in **Berlin, Germany **https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1483131751189450902 we're co-hosting with FOSS Backstage and Women in Open Source - meet with Eriol, Product Design for Music Assistant & ESPHome, as well as other FOSS enthusiasts.

Register on their respective Luma event links if you can make it. Hope we get to see some of you there!

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For you lucky people joining us in Utrecht, NL 🇳🇱 for State of the Open Home 2026, we've just released our program! agoogletada We've also opened the #sotoh2026 channel so you can chat about the event or start planning activities around Utrecht with others who will be attending.

If you don't have your ticket yet and can make it to join us, a few are still available. 👀

Your ticket includes: entry to the full evening, a casual dinner from 18:00, the main program at 19:30, plus drinks and networking afterwards. You'll also receive a welcome pack to take home. We look forward to seeing you there! ankha_heart

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We're excited to share that the Music Assistant project is getting its own social channels! agoogletada

To kick it off, join the Music Assistant team (and Missy!) for the Music Assistant 2.8 Release Party tomorrow, March 25, over on their new YouTube channel. 👇🏼 Subscribe to the channel and then hit that 🔔 to get notified when they go live. 😌

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Music Assistant 2.8 Release Party

Join the Music Assistant team to see what's new in Music Assistant 2.8!

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The Open Home Foundation's commercial partner, Nabu Casa, just released their first newsletter! agoogletada

Check out the details on how to turn Home Assistant Connect devices into repeaters 👇🏼 where you can also subscribe to get everything new from Nabu Casa right into your mailbox. https://www.nabucasa.com/news/2026-03-31-connect-repeaters/

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We now make the best repeaters

A new firmware is now availible to turn Home Assistant Connect devices into amazing Zigbee and Z-Wave repeaters

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📚 Reworked templating documentation is live on home-assistant.io. Every template function now has its own page, there are 14 learning pages, 2 tutorials, and a dedicated error messages index. The goal was to make templating feel less intimidating for everyone.

This is a first pass. Feedback welcome! What's confusing? What's missing? Got a pattern that should be listed?

📖 https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/templating/

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Templating

Learn how to use templates to make Home Assistant adapt to your needs.

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We're just about 48 hours away from the State of the Open Home! 😱

If you can make it to Utrecht to see us in-person, we still have a few tickets left. Grab yours before they're gone!

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Nabu Casa has opened this position up for those living in South America! 🎉 If you think this sounds like a good match for you, send them your application today!

Nabu Casa, an Open Home Foundation commercial partner, is also hiring! They're looking for a Backend Developer to join their Cloud & Infrastructure team working primarily on Home Assistant Cloud services. If you have at least 5 years experience in back-end development and experience with cloud services, submit your application today!
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The Open Home Foundation is expanding its Community department with a new role for an Events Associate. 🥳 This isn't your typical corporate events role, though. If you have two or more years experience in an event coordination or closely-related role and:

  • Genuine passion for community & a belief that bringing people together creates value,
  • Demonstrable experience supporting the planning & delivery of events of varying scale, and
  • Are comfortable with occasional international travel
    ... send in your application today! 😌
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The Community department at the Open Home Foundation continues its expansion! agoogletada We're looking for a Community Associate to help run our social media presence, support events management, and of course help bring our communities to life.

If you have residency in Europe, are comfortable with a little travel, and have experience in:

  • Managing social media accounts with true engagement,
  • Building communities in Discord, and
  • Organizing, running, or just stepping up to help lead events
    ... submit your application today! Clappy
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The Ecosystem department at the Open Home Foundation is looking for a Frontend Engineer! This department is responsible for the development of the ESPHome, Voice, and Music Assistant projects, as well as the Open Home protocols & the Foundation's collaborations. This role will implement and maintain the various frontend components that are needed for this wide range of projects.

If you have European residency and experience with:

  • Modern frontend frameworks like Lit, React, or Angular,
  • TypeScript development, &
  • Developing and optimizing progressive web applications
    ... submit your application today!
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Home Assistant Cloud users: a misconfiguration will cause the cloud to stop working after 30 days. We have fixed the config but can't fix existing setups. Do these steps:

Alexa: disable and re-enable the skill and log back in
Home Assistant: log out of the cloud and log back in.

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And my own tweet 😋

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Hi @here, if you were in #331895494844481548, #371340912078356502 or #botspam, we have now restricted those channels to anyone holding the Other rank. You can add the rank to your own profile by saying ?rank Other in any channel (preferably #the-water-cooler, sorry loungers!) with @vapid thistle. We are doing this to help keep your sidebar a bit more contained. Please message a moderator if you have questions or issues. Thanks!

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The forums will be down for an hour or so as we're doing some maintenance. After that it should no longer fail!

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Thanks guys for making this possible.

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0.84.4 has been released. It contains a fix for translations in the frontend not always loading, and for Logitech Harmony

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We are launching a data science portal to teach you how you can learn from your own smart home data. We explain what data is stored, and offer tools to learn and explore your data. In 15 minutes you setup a local data science environment running reports.

We have worked hard on a smooth experience. Single click to setup a local data science environment powered by Jupyter. Pre-installed with our Getting Started notebook for Home Assistant, automatically connects to your database and generates reports with a single click.

All of this is powered by the new JupyterLab hass.io add-on by frenck and the new HASS Data Detective Python package by robmarkcole.

Today is only the start. We will continue to develop the data tools for Home Assistant. It’s our goal to make Home Assistant the easiest platform to use for data scientists interested in home automation.

Live your life.
Learn from the data of your life.
Improve your life.
Contribute knowledge back to the community.
Improve everyones life.

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Data Science portal for Home Assistant launched · Home Assistant ...

TL;DR: Today we launch a new data portal to get users up and running with their own data science environment running their first reports in 15 minutes. Get started.

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@here We are experiencing some issues with the Community Forums, they will be going down for maintenance shortly with no estimated time to restoration. Apologies for the short notice, sometimes computers just like to randomly act up 😃

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@here See that wasn't so bad. The forums are back up and running. Thanks for not rioting in the meantime, although rioting is probably a bit hard for a room where the majority of y'all can't talk 😄 😄 😄

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@here We are working on improving some infrastructure bits on everything under home-assistant.io. "Everything" includes but is not limited to: the website, developer docs and forums. They'll be up and down for the next 30 minutes or so. As always, thanks for your patience. I'll update when all clear.

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@here thanks for hanging in there, we are back to good service across all bits of the home assistant empire

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@here We've just updated our Discord server channel structure!

We separated configuring/using Home Assistant from its installation methods. So the 4 main installation methods now have their own channels in the "Installation method" category: #449717345808547842, #551849179086061570, #330990055533576204 & #551864459891703809

Furthermore, we noticed our community like to chat about things that are related to Home Assistant. We want to support that community feeling; therefore, we have created a bunch of new channels! 💖

Come over and say "Hi!" 👋 in your channel of interest: #551844176556457984, #551843558676758569, #551844050597052416, #diy-archived, #node-red-archived, #551843800209686539, #zigbee-archived, #zwave-archived.

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k, HA tweets now automatically show up here, congratulations to us all

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Forums are going down for a bit for maintenance

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Home Assistant 0.90 is here!

☁️ Control your instance remotely via Home Assistant Cloud
🎥 Stream your cameras to Chromecast devices
🔒 Restrict access with user groups.
💡 Configure areas while setting up new integrations.

https://t.co/x8FvOQbmJM

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We are finally getting really active on @Instagram, follow us at instagram.com/homeassistant for a more visual feed of what’s going on in the Home Assistant community and some behind the scenes looks at ongoing development!

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Happy 3 year anniversary of the forums!

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Starting with Home Assistant 0.91, we will occasionally show advertisements on your home screen to help fund extra projects, like building an official Android app 🤩 https://t.co/HfDk18ezvW

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Home Assistant 0.91 is here and it is full of love for cameras.

  • 🏎 Preload camera streams for instant playback
  • 🎬 Record camera streams to disk
  • 👶🏼 Hey Google, show the nursery
  • 📽 @esphome_ camera support

Enjoy! https://t.co/NKYAn42eSV

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[status] Scheduled (Apr 4, 2019, 02:34 UTC): The forums will be rebuilding for 20-30 minutes while they rebuild to install a new plugin and complete some updates. Forums may be partially or entirely inaccessible during this time. https://t.co/PU9ORCfCJ2

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Our contributors keep the project always moving forward and the YouTubers, bloggers and tweeters help spread Home Assistant to the world. All of them are deserving of constant thanks!

From our subreddit: https://t.co/Toff8nOufg

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@everyone Surprise live steam with @ruby pebble and special guest @hallow stirrup taking your questions and talking about Home Assistant!

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@here Yes, the forums are down, it’s not just you. Our team of over 1000 monkeys have been retasked from attempting to write Shakespeare on typewriters to fixing the forums. Updates will be provided at https://status.home-assistant.io and via Twitter. Will alert @ here once the monkeys have successfully fixed it... or wrote Shakespeare.

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Welcome to Home Assistant's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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If you are in San Diego, California this upcoming Sunday, stop by our improvised meetup and meet myself and Rohan (from HA podcast fame) https://community.home-assistant.io/t/san-diego-meetup-june-9/119795

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San Diego Meetup - June 9

Rohan (from Home Assistant Podcast fame) is visiting San Diego and I’m planning on hanging out with him in the evening of Sunday, June 9. We would love to meet more Home Assistant users out there so want to know who else would be down to hang out. Will bring stickers 👍 ...

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Just a heads up all that our DNS provider (Cloudflare) is experiencing issues that may be impacting our services. I’m monitoring from bed but not much we can do at this point

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🚨 Discord phishing scam is currently in progress and spreading like crazy. Please be very careful of links you click and add two factor authentication if you haven't already! https://twitter.com/splitsplatted/status/1143556723266994176

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Since our community is constantly growing; Say hi to our new moderator recruits! ❤️
@fossil wren @tribal prawn @fiery tundra @sullen mural @opal schooner @quick bolt @real wigeon @neat ore 🎉

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I'm updating the forums to latest version 🤞

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Paulus & I are still working on the forums and they will continue to be readonly for another hour or two

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The forums have now returned to normal operations. We thank you for your patience during the last 24 hours. We strive to ensure good service on every service we provide and will be investigating the root cause of this extended outage to ensure that this won't happen again.

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If anyone has some extra Discord boosts laying around, we could use 2 more within the next 24 hours to keep our Level 2 perks. The only benefit I can offer you is a shoutout right here in #announcements if you boost.

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Thank you to @severe ridge for giving us 1 boost! Still looking for one more 🙂

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY @hallow stirrup!!!!!

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Home Assistant 0.114.0 beta has started! 🎉

If you are interested in helping out the project with testing, or want to play with the upcoming features: Head over to the #beta channel. Testing a beta is fairly safe to do and if you run into issues, you can rollback to the latest stable.

Happy testing! 😎

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Due to a high level of spammers coming to our Discord server, we have upped the user account requirements for the Home Assistant server temporarily.

If you are currently unable to write messages in our channels, it would be caused by this. To unlock your Discord account, make sure your account is verified in your Discord account settings.

Sorry for the inconvenience (stupid spammers/scammers... 😢 )

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Thanks as usual to @fathom heron

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Do you want to speak at the very first Home Assistant Conference about your cool automation, Lovelace dashboard or how Home Assistant has changed your life? Submit your talk before October 31. More info at https://www.home-assistant.io/conference/

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December 13, 2020 we will host the first online Home Assistant Conference.

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☝️ We are live!

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Forums will be temporarily down while we are increasing the instance size to increase reliability.

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It's back! It's a miracle!

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We started publishing videos of the Home Assistant Conference 2020 on YouTube. These are videos of talks that aren't available yet.
Today we start with the recordings opening & closing keynotes. Stay tuned to our YouTube channel for more videos of the conference 😎
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Opening Keynote - Home Assistant Conference 2020

Recording of the opening keynote presented at the Home Assistant Conference 2020.

In the opening keynote, we look back at the major milestones of 2020. A quick overview of all the great things that happened to our open source project last year.

In the opening keynote:
00:00 - Opening words by Paulus Schoutsen
14:05 - Supervisor & Operating Sys...

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Three new videos of recordings from the Home Assistant Conference 2020 have been uploaded to YouTube.

Acceptance Factors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QU2P1f93zQ&list=PLKsVm4cWHDQDGRXnybFUOLlcDWPsroGGB&index=3

YAML like a pro with VS Code
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Collaborating in large project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49PBLct0FlA&list=PLKsVm4cWHDQDGRXnybFUOLlcDWPsroGGB&index=5

You can find all uploaded videos this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKsVm4cWHDQDGRXnybFUOLlcDWPsroGGB

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A playlist containing all the talks held at the Home Assistant Conference 2020.

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Three new videos of recordings from the Home Assistant Conference 2020 have been uploaded to YouTube.

Creating the ultimate morning routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NifGWGOfSk

Make smarter automations, not more automations
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The beginners guide to device triggers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAPrfxRNUgQ

You can find all uploaded videos in this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKsVm4cWHDQDGRXnybFUOLlcDWPsroGGB

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A playlist containing all the talks held at the Home Assistant Conference 2020.

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Three new videos of recordings from the Home Assistant Conference 2020 have been uploaded to YouTube.

Home Assistant; The technology my family can't live without
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYVjtQHYTic

Automate everything! How to make your stupid devices smart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsCy9-aLlY

Predicting Activities of daily living using Machine Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErWK0wV6uMQ

You can find all uploaded videos in this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKsVm4cWHDQDGRXnybFUOLlcDWPsroGGB

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It has come to our attention that certain custom integrations have security issues and could potentially leak sensitive information.

The latest version of Home Assistant adds extra protection.

⚠️ Update your instance as soon as possible.

More information in our blog post:
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/01/14/security-bulletin/

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Security Bulletin

Update your Home Assistant instance as soon as possible.

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(hint: follow us on twitter)

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Wow, the goodies never stop. Amazing.

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If you receive spam from any other user on this server, please post a screenshot and the spammers name in #the-water-cooler (do not mention @ Mods or any one mod)

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8 years ago Home Assistant was created and to celebrate we're announcing the … ha, not spilling the beans yet. Join us for the live stream to find out! 💛🤖⚡️

Going live Wednesday September 15 at noon PDT (same time as release parties)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPR-shzT_VQ

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8 years ago Home Assistant was created and to celebrate we're announcing the … ha, not spilling the beans yet. Join us for the live stream to find out! 💛🤖⚡️

Going live Wednesday September 15 at noon PDT (same time as release parties)

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Happy 8th birthday Home Assistant! 🎈

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We encountered a daylight savings bug last weekend when Europe transitioned last weekend. A restart will resolve the issue. If you are yet to transition to a new summer/winter time, a fix is included in 2021.10.7 thanks to @tall nacelle @stark spear and @violet cypress

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There is no release today!

We all had a break over the holidays. Next month we're back and will continue our schedule to release on the first Wednesday of the month.

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At the end of last year, we created one Configuration menu by merging Supervisor. In a next iteration, we want to organize our menu by create logical grouping and combining duplicated features. We are conducting this test to see if we are on the right track.

  • Anyone can join
  • Due to some limitations, it only works on desktop
  • This test is open for 10 days
  • Results and conclusions are shared
  • This topic will be unlocked after sharing the results

Hint: This design may not be developed or developed differently.

Join this 10 minutes test!
https://usabi.li/do/6a773e671601/83c3

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We're going to have a fun week!

Whether you are an IoT expert, an IoT tinkerer or just a casual smart home enthusiasts, we are going to have a live stream just for you!

Check it out 👇

🚀 On Wednesday we're going to explain how the new Matter standard works, how it will work in Home Assistant and guide you to get your instance talking to a DIY Matter light based on an experimental version of our new Matter integration 🤩

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/05/29/matter-in-home-assistant-workshop-announcement/

🔊 On Thursday we're going to get LOUD with our event all about audio in the smart home.

All speakers you buy nowadays are instant vendor lock-in 🤮 We teamed up with friends ESPHome and Raspiaudio to provide neat alternatives and most important: choice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEH-DxOsywg

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On June 15 we're showing how Matter will work and guide you in getting it set up.

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Let's get loud! – Audio in the Open Home

We've been working on some exciting open audio stuff for the smart home we would like to share. Featuring Home Assistant, ESPHome, Raspiaudio and a special guest.

https://www.home-assistant.io https://esphome.io https://raspiaudio.com https://building.open-home.io

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