Open Home Foundation

In November's newsletter we focus on why a smart home should be a reliable home. Smart home systems inevitably end up responsible for a lot of important things, it's critical that they work. Read on to see how to improve reliability ???? #OpenHome #Newsletter #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

In this month's newsletter, we talk about Home Assistant and OHF collaboration partner Zigbee2MQTT both getting top spots on GitHub's 2024 wrap-up, and steps we're taking to improve the Foundation! ???? Read on ???? https://lnkd.in/ga5Bwz2v

?? Calling All Researchers and Academics! ?? ?? We know that the open-source projects of the Open Home Foundation are being used in exciting ways across research and academia, and we would love to learn more about how they contribute to different projects. Whether you’re using it for smart home studies, privacy investigations, sustainability efforts, IoT applications, or other research areas, I’d love to connect and learn about your work! If you’ve used Home Assistant, ESPHome, or other Open Home technologies in your projects or studies—or know someone who has—please reach out or tag them in the comments. ?? Please fill out the survey with some key information about you and your research so we can reach you. https://lnkd.in/eaWaHAxC Feel also free to message me directly! Thanks so much for your support! ?? #OpenSource #HomeAssistant #ESPHome #Research #Academia #SmartHomes #IoT #Privacy #Sustainability

The September newsletter is out and this month we celebrated Home Assistant's 11th anniversary! The project continues to age like fine wine with the community helping us move the Open Home forward. Read on to learn about events we attended and more: ????

We're excited to announce that our founder will be joining the Z-Wave Alliance Board, representing Nabu Casa! ?? This will allow us to play a bigger role in shaping Z-Wave's future. Read on to see what this means ????

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! ????