Home Assistant

Back in business! 🎉 The Open Home Foundation merch store is live again, and you can now shop in your own currency 🌍 We’ve got lots more improvements coming over the next few months 👀 Shop the merch 🛍️ store.openhomefoundation.org/

@LEDVANCE joins Works with Home Assistant, bringing a century of lighting heritage and 116 certified Matter devices to our community 🎉 Learn more 👇 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10...

Home Assistant 2026.10! 🎉 A whole new map, crisp at every zoom level 📍, trigger IDs get a proper UI 🧠, Cloud becomes Link 🔗, and 15 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10...

Big Tech ruined the cloud. So we’re renaming ours. ☁️ Home Assistant Cloud is now Home Assistant Link: an optional service from Nabu Casa for remote access, voice assistants, off-site backups & more, without cloud dependency. Meet Link 👇 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10...

Submit your SCaLE talk proposal 👇 If accepted, you’ll receive: 🎟️ SCaLE Pass 🚃 Travel & accommodation reimbursement 👕 Open Home Foundation merch Questions? events@openhomefoundation.org www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/24x/cfp

13 years of Home Assistant and more than 20,000 contributors 🎂 This month’s Open Home Foundation newsletter covers Home Assistant 2026.9, IFA Berlin, Community Day and more. Read it 👇 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/thirteen-yea...

Home assistant 13 years old! 🎂 Happy birthday to us! Home Assistant is officially a teenager. 13 years old today 🥳🏠 Here’s to the teenage years! 🎉

We're bringing the Home Assistant team to Lisbon on Wednesday, Sept 23, along with the rest of the Open Home Foundation 🎉 Come and tell us what you've built, and what you're still fighting with. Free, 7pm, Impact Hub Lisbon. We've got a few spaces left 👇

We're bringing the Home Assistant team to Lisbon on Wednesday, Sept 23, along with the rest of the Open Home Foundation 🎉 Come and show us what you've built, and steal ideas from everyone else. Free, 7pm, Impact Hub Lisbon. Just 20 spaces left 👇

Last chance to buy some Merch this month. It's a great way to support the foundation!

Countdown to Community Day 2026 starts now! 🥳 We have lots prepared for hosts & guests this year, so read our blog to learn about our playbook for community meetups, how to submit a request to receive official Open Home Foundation merchandise, & more 👇🏼 www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/countdo...

Home Assistant 2026.9! 🎉 Matter gets its own network map 🗺️, Activity details 🔍, Modbus integrations with ease 🔌, active alerts and favorites for the Security dashboard 🚨, charts with sound 🎵, and 13 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/09...

It's time for the August Newsletter 🎉 This month we sow the seeds, you grow the (open) home 🌱. We're talking about HAIR, the ESPHome Starter Kit and publishing our Home Assistant Survey dataset! Read on 👇 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/we-sow-the-s... #HomeAssistant #Newsletter #SmartHome

Who actually lives in a smart home? We asked and today the answers are yours! 🎉 The anonymized results of our first Home Assistant community survey are now free for everyone: a rich dataset published openly for anyone to check, build on, and benefit from. Read on 👇

Presence detected 🏡 Want to talk shop with a specific team member at IFA Berlin? Here's when we're home. Stop by, say hi, and geek out about your favorite topics. 👋

Doors open in 7 days! 🎫 Get ready to load up Music Assistant 2.10! Join us for the release party next week 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0W_...

September is meetup season 🍂 Rotterdam 🇳🇱, Berlin 🇩🇪, Köln 🇩🇪, Lisbon 🇵🇹 Find yours and say hi 👇

Shh 🤫 If you're at IFA this year, don't forget to come by our booth and grab some stickers.

📢 INTRODUCING THE ESPHOME STARTER KIT! 🎉 Designed and built by our commercial partner Apollo Automation, the ESPHome Starter Kit gives you the tools, skills and confidence to stop just using smart home tech, and start creating it. Build, Learn, Automate. esphome.io/starter-kit

🚨We're LIVE with ESPHome Starter Kit launch! 🎥 Come and see what we've been building with our commercial partner Apollo Automation. #HomeAutomation #SmartHome #ESPHome #HomeAssistant

1 HOUR! 🎉 We're launching the ESPHome Starter Kit at 21:00 CEST on the ESPHome Youtube Channel. It's us, commercial partners Apollo Automation, special guests and YOU! See you there for all the details! 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2H...

It's happening tomorrow. ESPHome Starter Kit, 21:00 CEST.

🚀 T-minus one week to lift-off! The ESPHome Starter Kit launches next Wednesday, Aug 12 at 21:00 CEST. Join us as we celebrate with our commercial partner Apollo Automation, plus special guests Reed (Smart Home Solver), Simon (Simon Says Home Assistant), and Gavin (Hometech.fm). See you there! 🎉

Home Assistant 2026.8! 🎉 New OS installs no longer need :8123 in the address to access the UI, making it that little bit more approachable for new users 🏡, you can now set the Entity ID format for new entities ⚙️, and more! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/08... #HomeAssistant

🏠 IFA is almost here, and we're bringing a whole smart home with us! Come find Team Open Home Foundation in the Smart Home Hall, Booth 153. We'll be in our smart home away from home, and you're welcome to join us. See you there! 👋 www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/ifa-ber...

Say hello to the ESPHome Device Builder desktop app, available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's a super easy way to deploy and manage your devices in a single download. You can read more about it in our blog 👇 esphome.io/blog/2026/08... #SmartHome #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation

🚨 New T-shirt Alert! 🚨 Fresh in store are our new Dark Mode t-shirts! Rep your favorite project with a minimal design. Available in our EU store now! 👇 store.openhomefoundation.org/shop/p/t-shi...

Google restricted key Android features to its own apps. When the European Commission asked us what we thought about about it, we had plenty to say. And they listened. Alphabet must now open up 11 Android features to third-party assistants. Read more 👇

Find out how and why we’re implementing analytics on our websites: via open source software with no personal data collection or tracking. Read more 👇

We've been dying to show you this. Aug 12. Live.

In case you missed it: Home Assistant now supports the latest version of Matter (1.6). If you're looking to run the newest devices all fully locally, a great place to start is a Home Assistant Green paired with a Connect ZBT-2. www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/06...

You're invited to our "Cozy Sanctuary" at IFA Berlin! These shows can be exhausting. So stop by for a coffee and chat! You'll be able to rest, recharge, and get hands-on with products and merch 👕 in your smart home away from home 🏠 Read More 👇

Works with Home Assistant welcomes our newest partner: FireAvert! 🎉 Specialists in fire safety, FireAvert are on a mission to keep you and your home out of harm's way. They bring the very first gas and electric appliance shutoff devices to the program. www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07...

Upcoming Home Assistant meetups: 29 July - Sydney 🇦🇺, 06 Sept - Berlin 🇩🇪 Join (or organize) your nearest meetup 👇

Take a trip with us to one of the world's largest botanical gardens, where they're using Home Assistant to make tech more approachable 🌱, the new ESPHome Device builder, and preview our device database! newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/the-walled-g... #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #Newsletter

Excited to share the preview edition of our community-powered smart home device database. We need your input to make this tool as accessible and useful as possible!

Today we're excited to announce Matter Server 9.1.0 which includes support for Matter 1.6.0! 🎉 You'll also find Automatic Time Sync for supported devices ⏱️ enhanced Thread network diagnostics 🪡 and so much more. Update the Matter Server integration to take advantage of everything new 👏🏻 #SmartHome

Upcoming Home Assistant meetups: Köln 🇩🇪, Newcastle 🇬🇧, Kyiv 🇺🇦, Sydney 🇦🇺, Berlin 🇩🇪 Join your nearest meetup 👇

The Works with Home Assistant program powers up this month as we welcome our new partner, IoTorero! 🎉 Experts in pre-flashed smart home hardware, IoTorero bring the very first ESPHome-ready smart plugs and relays to the program (and that’s not all). Read on 👇 #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

To build a stronger Companion app for everyone, we're discontinuing support for iOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS 11. Read on for all the details 🔽 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07...

Home Assistant 2026.7! 🎉 Purpose-specific triggers and conditions graduate from Labs to become the new default, so your automations say what you want 🧠, Activity logbook is reborn as a timeline 📖, one-tap Update all 🔄, and 10 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07...

Join us at IFA Berlin this September to meet some of the team working on Home Assistant 🙌

Pordenone 🇮🇹, Budapest 🇭🇺, Köln 🇩🇪, Newcastle 🇬🇧, Kyiv 🇺🇦, Sydney 🇦🇺 Join your nearest Home Assistant meetup 👇 luma.com/homeassistant

Matter support in Home Assistant just got faster, more stable, and more capable than ever. 🎉 See what’s changed and why it’s a big deal for your smart home.👇 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Proxy all the things! What do the latest "proxy" features mean in Home Assistant? What can you do now that you couldn't do before? What even is a proxy? Read more in the latest Open Home Foundation blog 👇

Learn why Home Assistant has chosen to partner with the #ZWave Alliance since day 1. It's local control and user choice combined with Z-Wave’s proven security and reliability advances an ecosystem that reduces cloud dependency while ensuring #interoperability: z-wavealliance.org/why-home-ass...

As part of our commitment to building in the open, we’re proud to publish the foundation’s very first Annual Report for 2025 🎉 From structural changes to big projects, it gives a detailed look into who we are and how we operate, along with our wins of 2025 and what’s next! Link below 🔗🧵

Music Assistant 2.9 Release Party is live! 🎶 Join and discover everything new this release!

New Reolink cameras join the Works with Home Assistant program! 📷 The Elite Floodlight WiFi and the Trackmix WiFi add to the growing list of Reolink cameras we've certified, taking the total to 10! works-with.home-assistant.io/certified-pr...

Home Assistant 2026.6! 🎉 A friendlier card picker 💡, infrared devices that now also listen 📡, live condition tests and target counts in the automation editor ✨, Z-Wave smart lock credential management 🔐, and 16 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/06... #HomeAssistant