The Open Home Foundation has an official blog now! 🎉 For our first post, we have the State of the Open Home recap blog. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us in person and watched us live - if you missed out on the live event, you can find the whole thing on our Youtube channel. #HomeAutomation

That's a wrap on State of the Open Home 2026! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us in Utrecht and watching worldwide! We are so excited for the year ahead. Let's build in the open together!

We are Live! 🎤 State of the Open Home 2026 is here! We're talking about what's up next for the Home Assistant (and other projects), how we're building in 2026, and sharing some huge wins from the year gone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAL...

Tomorrow is State of the Open Home 2026! 🎉 Join us live on YouTube at 19:00 CEST (1:00 PM EDT/10:00 AM PDT) to get excited about what’s next, celebrate our community, and share successes as we continue to build in the open. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAL... #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

It's #WomenInTechDay! Today we highlight Marie Van Brittan Brown, who security experts now recognize as pioneered home security. A nurse wanting to make her home secure, she invented an audio-visual home security system, helping create the security tech industry as we know it. #SmartHome

You asked and we listened! For years, the community has been asking for a new design in Home Assistant. Something modern and timeless, something to match the power of the platform. We’re pleased to announce that an improved UI trial is now available. 👇

Home Assistant 2026.4! 🎉 Infrared support turns old remotes into smart controllers 📡, purpose-specific triggers almost feature complete 🧠, Matter lock management 🔐, dashboard section backgrounds 🎨, and 14 new integrations! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/04... #HomeAssistant

Meet your new Zigbee and Z-Wave dark spot destroyer 🔦. New experimental firmware can turn your Connect ZBT-2 and ZWA-2 into repeaters. Learn how Zigbee and Z-Wave repeaters can help your smart home devices' responsiveness and how to set them up. www.nabucasa.com/news/2026-03...

Next week on Wednesday, April 8, we go live on the Open Home Foundation YouTube channel for our annual event! Join us to celebrate our community, share successes, and get excited about what’s next as we continue to build in the open. 👇

We’re bringing your Home Assistant backups fully up to date. 🔐 Rolling out with release 2026.4, SecureTar v3 has independently audited, best-in-class encryption. #SmartHome #HomeAutomation Read on for more details. 👇

2.8 is live and so are we!🎵 Join us over on the livestream and discuss the new features with some of the team! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXx5...

Join us at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, for State of the Open Home 2026! 🇳🇱 Tickets include casual dinner, drinks, and a chance to connect with the community at the live event! See you there? sotoh.openhomefoundation.org

We’re thrilled to extend a very warm (ahem) Works with Home Assistant welcome to Heatit! Heatit are about keeping you warm 🌡️. We've certified 5 of their Z-Wave devices, from smart climate and heating controls to smoke detectors! Check out the blog for more details 👇 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Did you know Music Assistant has its own BlueSky? Follow for tomorrow's Music Assistant 2.8 release! @music-assistant.bsky.social

Nabu Casa, with the help of Ameridroid is starting our first refurb program 🎉! We hate smart home e-waste, so let's find new homes for these like-new Home Assistant Greens. Thanks as always, every purchase supports the development of Home Assistant. www.nabucasa.com/news/2026-03...

For the March newsletter, we highlight why while Big Tech bets on AI, we’re investing in humans. 🤝 Read on to learn about how real people are our strength, the new community team, and more 👇🏼 #Newsletter #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

Happy #PiDay! π Last year, we shared a recipe that explained how you can bake Home Assistant onto a Raspberry Pi. This year, @adorablecyb.org#PiDayshows you! 🥧 Ingredients list in the reply 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Get your ticket whilst you can!

Happy March, everyone! Here's your quarterly update on Home Assistant meetups. 🤩 See the locations for the current March, April, & May meetups in the replies. 😌 You can find all of the community meetups on our Luma page 👇🏼 new ones come up all the time! #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💐 About 1/4 of employees at the @openhomefoundation.org#InternationalWomensDayidentify as a woman - today we highlight just a few of those who work both behind the scenes and front & center on the foundation's projects. Meet Annika, Ilenia, Laura, and Nadine! 🥰 #HomeAssistant #WomenInTech

Meet the speakers of SOTOH26! 🎙 They'll be taking to the stage on Wednesday, 8 April to celebrate building in the open with our community, share successes and get excited about what's coming next. Join us online or in person. Limited tickets available: sotoh.openhomefoundation.org/ #HomeAssistant

Home Assistant 2026.3 🎉 This month we focused on getting the amazing contributions from our community merged. 🤩 Send your vacuum to specific areas 🧹 wake word detection is now available on Android 🤖 and the energy dashboard shows real-time power consumption ⚡️ #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Tickets 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! #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

After an amazing 2025 for the Works with Home Assistant Program, it’s time to say “Hei” to the first partner joining us this year: Heiman 👋 . They bring an impressive catalog of safety-focused sensors to the program - including the first Matter carbon monoxide alarms 🚨. #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

For the February newsletter, we highlight why openness fundamentally conflicts with how Big Tech makes money by forcing people into ecosystems that only the company controls. Read on about how being open is our core innovation, learn about our new merch store, and more 👇🏼 #Newsletter #HomeAssistant

We've been talking about it for forever, but now the wait is over: the @openhomefoundation.org merch store is here! 🥳 It's a great way to support our mission and show what you stand for with high-quality swag. 👕 Read on to learn what else is in store 👇🏼 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

Today, the Year of the Horse begins. 🧧 According to Chinese astrology, the Horse is confident and responsible, but dislikes being reined in by others. To those who celebrate: Happy #LunarNewYear! 🐴 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

There's a community meetup in Utrecht, the NL tomorrow evening - and we just removed the cap for registration! 🥳 If you're in the area and interested in meeting a group of us who work on Home Assistant and other foundation projects, register NOW 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Imagine knowing how a device will actually perform in your home before you buy it 💡 We're building a database to make that happen! Read our blog to find out how you can contribute 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Version 2026.1.6 of the Android Companion app is out! 👏🏻 There are several changes this release, but most notably: 🔹 A new onboarding experience 🔹 Assist enhancements with streaming TTS 🔹 A new entity picker ....and so much more. Update or download today! ➡️ play.google.com/store/apps/d...

In 2026's first newsletter, we talk about how open source is the path to digital sovereignty: something you (and indeed nations) can own without relying on renting infrastructure. Read on about how more control = better privacy, plus a recap of this year's CES & more 👇🏼 #SmartHome #OpenSource

Will you be at #FOSDEM or in Brussels next week and want to meet some of the team? 👀 We have a few more spots open to register for the event at Little Delirium on Jan 31! If you haven't registered yet, do so before space runs out 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #OpenSource

More details about #SOTOH26 🎉

Want to contribute to Home Assistant but not sure where to start? 🧐 Then check out the "good first issue" label for our Android Companion app! These issues are selected for their relative approachability for first-time contributors! 👀 github.com/home-assista...

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It's important that the Works with Home Assistant program is always transparent. So today, we're announcing the formal removal of HELTUN from the program. Read why we made this decision on our blog 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Big news from today's @home-assistant.io live stream: April 8 is the date of this year’s State of the Open Home — an annual event where we highlight what’s new and what’s coming next for our projects. Mark your calendars – more details coming soon!

Home Assistant 2026.1 🥂 Home dashboard improvements 🏡, easier navigation to protocol dashboards 🔎, and ESPHome action responses are just a few of the small but important changes this release. 😎

Time to say farewell 2025 and hello 2026. 😌 It's because of you, the community, that we were able to make 2025 our best year yet. 👏🏻 From all of us, to you and yours: here's to all the blessings we hope 2026 will bring. 🥂 #HappyNewYear #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

It's December 29 which means it's also #StillNeedToDoDay. We don't mean to send you into a panic but, uh... what #SmartHome projects do you still need to complete before we finish 2025? 😬 #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation

We aren't vocal about the meetups hosted by the @openhomefoundation.org but we're changing that! Our Event Manager, Flor, is hard at work coordinating more frequent meetups. 😌 We have 4 events scheduled through March! 🙌🏻 Las Vegas - Jan 6 | Brussels - Jan 31 | Utrecht - Feb 3 | London - Feb 25 🔗🧵

Happy #NationalUglySweaterDay! What started in the US has become an international event as we embrace the beauty in ugly. 😌 Today we're showing off our ugly sweaters: now show us your best! 🤩 Or maybe share a design you'd like to see in our merch store for Holidays 2026... 👀 #HomeAssistant

As the year winds down with the last newsletter of 2025, there are still some surprises in store! 🎄 We're thrilled to chat with our new commercial partner @apolloautomation.bsky.social about joining us – plus we welcome Z-Wave JS & microWakeWord to the foundation. 🎉 Read more 👇🏻 #SmartHome

Our friends on the Music Assistant team have released their latest hit: Music Assistant 2.7! 💃🏻 They've jazzed up the UI & UX with a chart-topping lineup of new features & providers, and introduce a new streaming protocol they're spinning up! 💿 Catch up on all that's new 👇🏼

Today the US observes #NationalAppDay. 📱 Did you know that our Companion app lets you: 📲 Connect to your car & smart watch? ⌚️ Create widgets? 🐈 Get notified when that cat is in the yard again? Download the app for your device👇🏼 to get connected! #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

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 🔔 to get notified when we're live! 👇🏼 #SmartHome

Connect ZBT-2 - the best way to connect Zigbee, Thread, or Matter devices - is now available for purchase in more locations, including the US's biggest online marketplace, 2 new German outlets, & the first in Greece! 👏🏻 Grab yours today and upgrade your smart home ahead of the holidays! 👇🏼

The Works with Home Assistant program has had quite the year – the biggest since we launched it in 2022! 🥳 Miranda looks back on an eventful 12 months & introduces something we're excited to share: a searchable list of certified devices. 👏🏻 Read the full recap 👇🏼 #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

Did you miss the interview @frenck.social did with @github.com during Universe '25? Don't worry, they put it in blog form for you! 👏🏻 "We don't build Home Assistant - the community does." Couldn't have said it better. 😌 #HomeAutomation #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

Home Assistant 2025.12 🎄 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12... Labs with Winter mode ❄️, purpose-specific triggers and conditions for automations 🧠, system-wide default dashboards 📱, real-time power monitoring ⚡ and much more to close out 2025! #HomeAssistant