Each September, we have fun the anniversary of Residence Assistant’s first PR in 2013 – for our twelfth birthday, we’re going all in on neighborhood once more. Final month, we requested for submissions on how Residence Assistant helps you, and immediately we’ll spotlight our favorites! We may even check out all of the cool milestones over the previous yr within the undertaking, due to contributions from you all, and the brand new issues arising for the neighborhood.
It’s a communal effort
After I (Missy Quarry) joined because the Group & Social Media Supervisor in February 2024, I used to be nonetheless new to how an open supply undertaking the dimensions of Residence Assistant manages its neighborhood. Over the previous 18 months, I’ve seen Residence Assistant neighborhood members from all walks of life — whether or not DIY tinkerers or individuals merely trying to make small enhancements at house — contribute in their very own methods. By sharing your tales and galvanizing others, you’ve helped the undertaking develop. For our twelfth birthday, I wish to have fun these contributions, irrespective of the dimensions or complexity. 😌
Earlier than I soar into celebrating all of your superb contributions and the way they form the tasks managed by the Open Residence Basis, I’ve a few birthday presents for you. 🎁
First, I’m thrilled to share our new Group web site! Proper now, it’s a easy hub to search out neighborhood info with ease, however we anticipate to evolve this over the approaching months (or so). You’ll discover hyperlinks to our official neighborhood platforms, info on occasions, and particulars on meetups, together with the right way to get reimbursed for sure charges as a bunch. Sooner or later, I’d like to incorporate hyperlinks to regional communities we’re conscious of and showcase extra of the sorts of tales I’ll be sharing immediately.
Really feel like one thing’s lacking from this new web page? Let me know!
Subsequent, we’ve been working laborious to do extra of our growth within the open. Final September, I redesigned the Discord server and in doing so I gated the Developer class behind a task. This has made it harder to develop within the open with the channels hidden behind a task, so we’re switching issues up.
As of this week, the Developer class is now read-only for each member. Wish to take a peek into the way forward for Residence Assistant? Head to the #tasks channel
Let’s soar into these submitted tales now… 🤩
Fortunately ever after
In my view, the perfect factor about Residence Assistant is its flexibility – you may combine such a variety of units into it and use their information to construct a unique-to-your-home expertise. And that’s precisely why I needed to listen to the way you, the neighborhood, use it in your individual house to learn you. Listed below are my favourite tales you submitted – I hope one evokes your subsequent undertaking. ✨
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A espresso automation to enhance Residence Approval Issue
. ☕️ Jordan made a morning automation to keep away from having the espresso grinder grind his morning temper. -
u/katschung helped their girlfriend absolutely settle for Residence Assistant by making a dashboard with a retrogame-style ground plan
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Sythsaz makes use of Residence Assistant to verify their pupper is fed. 🐾 “I’ve managed to make it so my canine’s meals auto emails the vet then the response to the e-mail will get placed on my calendar so I understand how lengthy a bag of meals lasts in addition to including the receipts to Google Drive.”
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Impressed by PowerDisplayESPHome
, JannickBlmndl made an LED matrix that helps their family be extra sustainable by being power versatile. It shows the reside power costs from their power supplier. 📊 -
Tano Spirits
in Melbourne, Australia, makes use of Residence Assistant to automate their Japanese Shochu distillery, impressed by a small brewing firm in Singapore. 🍻 -
A number of years in the past, HillPhantom discovered that Residence Assistant wasn’t fairly prepared for him. Over the previous yr, although, he’s now acquired Ollama arrange together with his Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version and has been constructing guides on the right way to make your individual mmWave radar sensors in Residence Assistant
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Over just some weeks, Pieter van Kampen just lately built-in 190 units that reply to voice management and greater than 1200 lively entities from his KNX house to create over 30 automations to assist with every thing from mowing the garden to controlling shades primarily based on the solar’s location and depth. 🪟
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MB used Zigbee buttons to assist accumulate information for his or her son’s physician after he developed some hassle sleeping. This gave glorious perception for the physician to begin trying into causes, they usually even used the system remotely whereas doing additional analysis. 📈
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Graham Hosking took automations to a different degree (earlier than we did) together with his AI Automation Suggester
and Automation Inspector . It takes the load off your mind by serving to give you new, intelligent automations! 🤖 -
Wessam Lauf fell down the rabbit gap that’s Residence Assistant as soon as he acquired his setup operating. Impressed by the Graphite theme and after some LLM vibe-coding, he wrote a template for his very personal theme, Frosted Glass
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Too many people anthropomorphize our houses, telling it to sit back out when 5 issues break the identical day. Biofects took that to coronary heart and created this Residence Assistant avatar
for his house (right here’s a bonus, nightmare gas first model ). 🫣
Builders! 👏🏻 Builders! 👏🏻 Builders! 👏🏻
Our neighborhood is greater than builders, it’s true. However we wouldn’t be the largest open supply undertaking
That’s why we’re wanting to interview neighborhood members once we open new roles on the basis. We’ve employed neighborhood members like Joostlek
(Have you ever checked our jobs web page
With our neighborhood of contributors and dealing with Nabu Casa on the {hardware} design, now we have efficiently launched a number of new items of {hardware}. The Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version introduced in language specialists from each nook of the world to assist guarantee our language protection is probably the most strong within the trade. Due to contributors, we assist languages like Greek, Icelandic, and extra just lately Irish Gaeilge! 😎 We had neighborhood contributors assist be certain that the Residence Assistant Join ZWA-2 was ready for launch final month. Sincerely, we couldn’t be extra grateful in your assist and efforts in these areas.
Listed below are some enjoyable stats from our GitHub contributors (commits on our Core repo
- Final 12 months (Sept – Aug) – 14,385
- Earlier 12 months – 14,503
A SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS to bdraco
The highest 8 contributors of all time in home-assistant/core👏🏻
That is only a small peek into all of the laborious work that goes into sustaining Residence Assistant – now we have extra repositories than simply Core, and each single contribution is valued.
Honorable dev point out from the submitted neighborhood tales – I couldn’t go away Joostlek’s (joke) submission out. 🤣
- Our very personal Head of Developer Relations (his phrases), Joost Lekkerkerker, says Residence Assistant helps maintain him off the road. He’s simply launched his new weblog
that talks about his imaginative and prescient of a sensible house, and the way he was impressed to not purchase Tuya Wi-Fi lights after seeing my expertise with some path lights.
Our humble gratitude
Group is the core of what we do and the guts of Residence Assistant. We thrive since you care and contribute your invaluable time to assist our collective success. Whether or not you discovered our platform since you needed extra privateness from large tech, had been intrigued by the variety of selections applied right into a single app, or wanted one thing to trace your sustainability efforts — you assist our values daily. Thanks for selecting us, and thanks for all you do to assist assist the muse and the tasks we preserve.
A really particular due to all our Residence Assistant Cloud subscribers and anybody who has bought our official Residence Assistant {hardware}. These assist the full-time growth of Residence Assistant (together with ESPHome, Music Assistant, and a lot extra), and are the simplest method to make sure these tasks maintain getting cool new options!
We now have extra issues coming down the road for you. Within the close to future, we plan on asserting a brand new merch retailer 👕. Within the first half of subsequent yr, I’ll announce when Residence Assistant Group Day 2026 will likely be. We’re already working with Nabu Casa on the following thrilling {hardware} announcement (no spoilers…for now). And that’s not even touching the trade occasions we plan on attending, the State of the Open Residence, and a lot extra. I’m excited to take you all on the journey we’re already engaged on over the following 12 months, and I’m all the time trying ahead to a different yr of fantastic contributions. 😌
