Open Home Foundation

Home Assistant at event for startups Enschede Slush'D? Yes! Yesterday I went back to my old university University of Twente to give a presentation about Home Assistant to a room full of startups and investors. Instead of focusing on what we've built, I talked about how we're building it: as a 100% independent open source platform owned by the Open Home Foundation. A platform untouchable by investors and enshittification. An everlasting platform that exists solely to serve its users. Photo by Antoine Moghaddar (Shotmaniacs) and Eric Brinkhorst.

In the August edition of our newsletter, we explore what makes a smart home platform, the new badges in Home Assistant, and the recent changes to the Works with Home Assistant program. Read on to learn what a true smart home platform should be: ⬇️

We're excited to announce that the Works with Home Assistant program has moved from Nabu Casa to the Open Home Foundation! You can read more about the important changes coming with this below. ⬇️

For July's Open Home Newsletter, we share our new collaboration partners, our thoughts on recent acquisitions in the smart home industry, and introduce the Wake Word Collective to help improve the accuracy of microWakeWord. Read more about these here:

📢 NEW JOB OPENING - 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! 👇🏼

June's edition of the Open Home Newsletter is out and this month we highlight how we're experimenting with the smart home of the future *today*. Read on below to see the seamless magic created by using multiple technologies to control your smart home.

In the May edition of the Open Home Newsletter, we highlight the pitfalls of cloud-based products - how to not phase them out and what can happen to them after bankruptcy. Read about those, see why Z-Wave is not dead, community highlights, and more below.

With Memorial Day sales this weekend, we wanted to remind you how to find the right kind of device for your open smart home. What to look for: ✅ Products that use open standards or local APIs ⚠️ Cloud APIs, risk factor varies ❌ Products with no API Watch the details shared during the State of the Open Home 2021 event below. Watch the full State of the Open Home 2021 event, starting from this buying guide, here: https://lnkd.in/gTPGwuuK

Z-Wave is not dead! Last week, we attended the Z-Wave Alliance Member meeting in Austin, TX - the first since Home Assistant became a member. We presented a keynote about the steps we think are critical to see it thrive into the future. Read more about our vision of making Z-Wave a successful consumer-facing product:

For this month's episode of the Home Assistant podcast, I've joined Phil Hawthorne to talk about the May release of #HomeAssistant 2024.5! Of course, we did not just discuss the new release; Phil wanted to know a lot more! 😅 https://lnkd.in/dz3MwRxv