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 at the moment we are going to spotlight our favorites! We may also check out all of the cool milestones over the previous yr within the venture, because of contributions from you all, and the brand new issues developing for the neighborhood.
It’s a communal effort
Once I (Missy Quarry) joined because the Neighborhood & Social Media Supervisor in February 2024, I used to be nonetheless new to how an open supply venture the scale 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 provoking others, you’ve helped the venture develop. For our twelfth birthday, I wish to have fun these contributions, irrespective of the scale or complexity. 😌
Earlier than I soar into celebrating all of your superb contributions and the way they form the initiatives managed by the Open Residence Basis, I’ve a few birthday presents for you. 🎁
First, I’m thrilled to share our new Neighborhood web site! Proper now, it’s a easy hub to search out neighborhood data with ease, however we count on to evolve this over the approaching months (or so). You’ll discover hyperlinks to our official neighborhood platforms, data on occasions, and particulars on meetups, together with methods to get reimbursed for sure charges as a number. 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 at the moment.
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 improvement within the open. Final September, I redesigned the Discord server and in doing so I gated the Developer class behind a job. This has made it harder to develop within the open with the channels hidden behind a job, 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 #initiatives channel
Let’s soar into these submitted tales now… 🤩
Fortunately ever after
In my view, one of the best factor about Residence Assistant is its flexibility – you’ll be able to combine such a variety of gadgets into it and use their knowledge to construct a unique-to-your-home expertise. And that’s precisely why I wished 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 venture. ✨
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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 flooring plan
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Sythsaz makes use of Residence Assistant to ensure 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 vitality versatile. It shows the stay vitality costs from their vitality supplier. 📊 -
Tano Spirits
in Melbourne, Australia, makes use of Residence Assistant to automate their Japanese Shochu distillery, impressed by the brewing automations at Little Island Brewing Co 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 received Ollama arrange together with his Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version and has been constructing guides on methods to make your individual mmWave radar sensors in Residence Assistant
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Over just some weeks, Pieter van Kampen lately built-in 190 gadgets that reply to voice management and greater than 1200 lively entities from his KNX house to create over 30 automations to assist with the whole lot 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 gather knowledge for his or her son’s physician after he developed some hassle sleeping. This gave wonderful perception for the physician to start out wanting into causes, they usually even used the system remotely whereas doing additional analysis. 📈
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Graham Hosking took automations to a different stage (earlier than we did) together with his AI Automation Suggester
and Automation Inspector . It takes the load off your mind by serving to provide you with new, intelligent automations! 🤖 -
Wessam Lauf fell down the rabbit gap that’s Residence Assistant as soon as he received his setup working. 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 gasoline first model ). 🫣
Builders! 👏🏻 Builders! 👏🏻 Builders! 👏🏻
Our neighborhood is greater than builders, it’s true. However we wouldn’t be the largest open supply venture
That’s why we’re desperate 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, we’ve got efficiently launched a couple of new items of {hardware}. The Residence Assistant Voice Preview Version introduced in language consultants from each nook of the world to assist guarantee our language protection is essentially the most strong within the business. Because of contributors, we help languages like Greek, Icelandic, and extra lately Irish Gaeilge! 😎 We had neighborhood contributors assist make sure that the Residence Assistant Join ZWA-2 was ready for launch final month. Sincerely, we couldn’t be extra grateful to your help 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 – we’ve got 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 wise 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
Neighborhood is the core of what we do and the guts of Residence Assistant. We thrive since you care and contribute your helpful time to help our collective success. Whether or not you discovered our platform since you wished extra privateness from large tech, had been intrigued by the variety of decisions applied right into a single app, or wanted one thing to trace your sustainability efforts — you help our values on daily basis. Thanks for selecting us, and thanks for all you do to assist help the muse and the initiatives we keep.
A really particular because of all our Residence Assistant Cloud subscribers and anybody who has bought our official Residence Assistant {hardware}. These help the full-time improvement of Residence Assistant (together with ESPHome, Music Assistant, and a lot extra), and are the simplest means to make sure these initiatives maintain getting cool new options!
We have now extra issues coming down the road for you. Within the close to future, we plan on saying a brand new merch retailer 👕. Within the first half of subsequent yr, I’ll announce when Residence Assistant Neighborhood Day 2026 can be. We’re already working with Nabu Casa on the subsequent thrilling {hardware} announcement (no spoilers…for now). And that’s not even touching the business 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 subsequent 12 months, and I’m all the time wanting ahead to a different yr of fantastic contributions. 😌
