Great (and fun!) video by Paul about how easy it is to get AI to help you build your smart home. Shout out to Magnus Overli, creator of the OpenCode app fully pre-configured for Home Assistant. Installs in minutes! This is the true power of an open platform. The true power of our community.

Home Assistant God Mode

You can install God mode in Home Assistant in under 10 minutes, and it changes everything. Open code is finally here and you NEED to check this out. Plain ...

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If you’re in Europe, you’ll want to check this out. They’re trying to push chat control through again, and this time the votes are stacked against us: fightchatcontrol.eu

We are reinventing ESPHome. A new era that welcomes both new and experienced users. Easier and faster, for everyone.

ESPHome@esphome.io · last mo.

ESPHome 2026.6.0 is here! 🛠️ Say hello to the new visual Device Builder, an interactive component catalog, integrated pin lists, and background multitasking to flash your whole fleet in parallel. Faster, leaner, and now beginner-friendly (YAML still welcome).

Biggest single improvement to our automation engine ever. Go check it out.

Home Assistant@home-assistant.io · last mo.

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...

Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam, a botanical garden founded in 1638, is fully run by Home Assistant to create a local system fully under their control 👌💐 vooijs.eu/posts/why-is...

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

The Matter upgrade you’ve been waiting for

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.

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Finally, the post about collab w/ @trailofbits.bsky.social is out: blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/22/i.... #aiohttp was one of the participating projects and got 8 security fixes out of it! #Python

Introducing Patch the Planet

Patch the Planet is our joint initiative with OpenAI to assist critical open-source software in the age of machine-speed vulnerability research.

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Today my 8 year old took one of the dev screens I had laying around and used AI to make a score board for today's game. It's controlled by touch, with the cheering people getting happier the more NL won. Dev boards are now the ultimate building blocks for your imagination. Anyone can do this!

The most sustainable device is the one you already own. 🌍 That's why our recent releases of Home Assistant and ESPHome help you bridge the gap between your smart devices and older, offline protocols. Read more 👇

Discover how Open Home Foundation projects can help you give your beloved old devices a new lease of life for a more sustainable smart home.

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Noticed how our last few releases opened up the path to integrating non-smart devices? The best path for your smart home is working with devices you already own. New is not always better. Existing devices are the sustainable choice: that's a _smart_ home.

Proxy all the things: no device left behind – Open Home Foundation

Discover how Open Home Foundation projects can help you give your beloved old devices a new lease of life for a more sustainable smart home.

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Home Assistant voice control literally in the palm of your hand is going to be so cool. Can't wait.

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My colleague Alice just published the first (alpha) developer docs for Index featuring webhook and MCP support. Looking forward to seeing what yall hack with it! Lots more to come ndocs.repebble.com/index-mcp-in...

Transparency is at the core of everything we do at the Open Home Foundation. You trust us with your money, we make open and empowering technology that puts you first, not investors or advertisers. Today we're publishing our 2025 annual report. It's all there publicly: the highs, the lows, the money.

The first of many: Our 2025 Annual Report – Open Home Foundation

Pull up a chair, because the foundation's 2025 Annual Report is here and packed with a year's worth of growth, milestones, and building with our community.

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I’ve been working on something new. Presenting YAMLRocks 🪨 A fast, correct YAML library for Python, written in Rust. YAML 1.2 (and 1.1), safe by default, and round-trip editing that keeps comments, anchors, and formatting intact. #OpenSource

YAMLRocks

A fast, correct YAML library for Python, written in Rust.

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When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

We're live with Music Assistant release party for the brand new 2.9 release!

Music Assistant 2.9 Release Party

Join the Music Assistant team and community guests for the Music Assistant 2.9 release!Release notes: https://www.music-assistant.io/blog/2026/06/10/music-as...

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Tired of Big Tech monetizing your social life? The alternative is one click away in @home-assistant.io. Social Home: a privacy-first, fully local platform on your own hardware. No ads, no tracking, your data stays home. Built in the open. Open beta is live 👉 social-home.io

@reckless.bsky.social the sizing guide values for CM and inches don't match for the new merch. Each value from CM converted to inches differs like 0.2-0.3" from the reported inch values. Which one is the right one?

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

Oslo had a nice visit this week from @paulusschoutsen.nl and @home-assistant.io organized a great meetup. It was fun to meet other smart home enthusiasts.

My colleagues in our cybersecurity testing lab published a nice reminder of why @consumerreports.org tests your connected devices for security flaws and privacy problems. It's also a reminder that with the information we provide, consumers can make better choices.

You're Not Just the Customer: You're the Product, and Your Privacy Is the Price - Innovation at Consumer Reports

Why should you care about privacy and security? Learn how smart devices collect your data, what companies owe consumers, and how your choices can push brands to prioritize privacy and protection.

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I've been having so much fun with the OpenDisplay screens in my house, showing relevant data at the right places. Super stoked to welcome them as a collaboration partner of the foundation. I can recommend anyone to check it out! www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/welcomi...

Welcoming OpenDisplay as our newest collaboration partner – Open Home Foundation

Find out how we're bringing the versatility and practicality of e-paper to a wider audience by teaming up with our new collaboration partner, OpenDisplay.

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New episode of the @home-assistant.io podcast is here! Rohan and I are chatting with Imre Laszlo about MiciMike which aims to turn your Google Home Mini into a fully local Home Assistant voice satellite. Perfect for re-using some older hardware

MiciMike will turn your Google Home Mini into a Home Assistant Voice Satellite

📚 Chapters00:00:00 - Welcome00:02:30 - Imi’s smart home origin00:05:00 - Lights first, then sensors00:07:30 - Heating logic in Node-RED00:10:00 - Room prese...

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For our May newsletter, we discuss research as an antidote to 'software brain'. 🧠 Plus learn about our new collaboration partner: OpenDisplay, choose from our list of community meetups, and much more 👇

Research as an antidote to ‘software brain’

Discover how we use human-computer interaction research to help build smart homes that adapt to the people who use them, not the other way round.

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From our first peer-reviewed paper to the decisions behind our projects 🚀 Open Home Foundation researchers Annika Schulz and Idil Bostan unpack how research shapes everything we do.

From our first peer-reviewed paper to the decisions behind our projects: Open Home Foundation researchers Annika Schulz and Idil Bostan unpack how research shapes everything we do.

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👋 @bdraco.org is going to be running a @pycon.us sprint on Monday. Come by and say hi! The sprint link is us.pycon.org/2026/events/.... It has pointers to getting started. We've also started a GH project to organize possible ideas: github.com/orgs/aio-lib.... #PyConUS #PyConUS2026 #Python

Development Sprints

PyCon US 2026

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Our community is producing DIY tutorials whose results rival finished products. DIY doesn't mean breadboards and wires, but thoughtful products with the features and look that suits your home. Example: a color e-ink frame with a local API and long battery life: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7354547

Want multi-room audio perfectly in sync and not afraid of some soldering? Make your own Sendspin devices for under $10 thanks to the SendspinZero project by RealDeco. github.com/RealDeco/Sen...

Are you a people person that wants to help us make our community bigger, better and stronger? Join our team! jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoun...

Community Associate

We are looking for The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Community Associate based in Europe to join our Community Department. This is the job for someone who lives and breathes community. Someo...

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Home Assistant Meetup in Rome 🇮🇹 on May 27, hosted by Nabu Casa! Come say hi to Paulus and the Nabu Casa team, hang out with the community, and talk all things smart home!​ 🍻 Sign up 👇 luma.com/mpkiz2d0

If you live in New York, and want to see the state pass a bill that would require connected device companies to tell you how long they plan to support these devices with software and security updates before you buy them, please send an email to your lawmaker anding them to support our bill!

Tell New York lawmakers you want to know how long your connected devices will last!

New Yorkers are tech savvy, but even the most diligent can’t always tell when their smart devices stop getting security updates...

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