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2026 44

  1. “What the Heck?!” 2026: Everyone at home gets a say
  2. Everything Smart Home joins Works with Home Assistant
  3. LEDVANCE joins Works with Home Assistant
  4. 2026.10: You are here 📍
  5. ← Older
  6. Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours
  7. 2026.9: There's room on this bus
  8. Anonymous and open to all: The Home Assistant survey dataset
  9. Read on Open Home Foundation →
  10. Community Day 2026: Save the date!
  11. Read on Open Home Foundation →
  12. Get ready to start building: The ESPHome Starter Kit is here!
  13. Read on ESPHome →
  14. 2026.8: Approachable by design
  15. A big win for Android interoperability
  16. This article is shared from the Open Home Foundation
  17. Making our web analytics open source with Plausible
  18. Read on Open Home Foundation →
  19. FireAvert joins Works with Home Assistant
  20. Building the device database together: Public preview now live
  21. Building the device database together
  22. IoTorero joins Works with Home Assistant
  23. Companion app: Changing support for Apple platforms
  24. 2026.7: Automations that speak your language
  25. The Matter upgrade you’ve been waiting for
  26. Proxy all the things: no device left behind
  27. Proxy all the things no device left behind
  28. 2026.6: Pick a card, any card
  29. Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant
  30. zunzunbee joins Works with Home Assistant
  31. Release 20265
  32. Bega joins works with home assistant
  33. Ubisys joins works with home assistant
  34. Release 20264
  35. Modernizing encryption of home assistant backups
  36. Heatit joins works with home assistant
  37. Release 20263
  38. Heiman joins works with home assistant
  39. Open home foundation merch store announcement
  40. Release 20262
  41. About device database
  42. State of the open home 2026
  43. Partner update heltun
  44. Release 20261

2025 45

  1. Music assistant 2 7
  2. Wwha 2025 recap
  3. Release 202512
  4. Home assistant connect zbt 2
  5. Release 202511
  6. Eltako joins wwha
  7. Voice chapter 11
  8. Yellow end of life
  9. Portable z wave with wifi and poe
  10. Konnected joins works with home assistant
  11. Release 202510
  12. Home assistant turns 12
  13. Ai in home assistant
  14. Release 20259
  15. Frient joins works with home assistant
  16. Airgradient joins works with home assistant
  17. Home assistant connect zwa 2
  18. Release 20258
  19. Shelly joins works with home assistant
  20. Companion app for android
  21. Zooz joins works with home assistant
  22. Nuki joins works with home assistant
  23. Release 20257
  24. Switchbot joins works with home assistant
  25. Voice chapter 10
  26. Community day 2025 wrap up
  27. Release 20256
  28. Deprecating core and supervised installation methods and 32 bit systems
  29. Roadmap 2025h1
  30. Release 20255
  31. Eve joins works with home assistant
  32. Community day
  33. Reolink joins works with home assistant
  34. State of the open home recap
  35. Release 20254
  36. Motionblinds joins wwha
  37. State of the open home 2025 announcement
  38. Matter certification
  39. Music assistants next big hit
  40. Release 20253
  41. Apollo joins wwha
  42. Voice chapter 9 speech to phrase
  43. Release 20252
  44. Release 20251
  45. 3 2 1 backup

2024 49

  1. Voice chapter 8 assist in the home
  2. Voice preview edition the era of open voice
  3. launched the first Home Assistant survey
  4. Release 202412
  5. The month of what the heck
  6. Home assistant yellow gets cm5 support
  7. Event wrapup github universe 24
  8. Roadmap 2024h2
  9. Release 202411
  10. Wake word collective
  11. Release 202410
  12. Connect zbt1 issue and replacement
  13. We are joining the z wave alliance board
  14. Home assistant is 11 years old
  15. Getting ready for ios18
  16. Release 20249
  17. Aqara joins works with home assistant
  18. Hacs the best way to share community made projects
  19. Works with home assistant becomes part ohf
  20. Release 20248
  21. Streamlining the home assistant yellow lineup
  22. Dashboard chapter 2
  23. Release 20247
  24. Voice chapter 7
  25. Zbt1 annoucement
  26. Roadmap introduction
  27. Roadmap 2024h1
  28. Ai agents for the smart home
  29. Release 20246
  30. Companion app for ios 20245 assist
  31. Music assistant 2
  32. Zwave is not dead
  33. Release 20245
  34. State of the open home 2024
  35. Release 20244
  36. Voice assistant community contest winners annoucement
  37. Release 20243
  38. Dashboard chapter 1
  39. Home assistant os 12 support for raspberry pi 5
  40. What about grace live stream
  41. Voice chapter 6
  42. Voice chapter 6 livestream
  43. Nabu casa joins z wave alliance
  44. Release 20242
  45. Companion app for ios 20241 carplay
  46. Matter livestream blog
  47. Voice assistant contest
  48. Matter livestream
  49. Release 20241

2023 42

  1. Companion app for ios 202312 lets go
  2. Disabling new login page functionality
  3. Year of the voice chapter 5
  4. Silicon labs official partnership nabu casa
  5. Homewizard joins works with home assistant program
  6. Release 202312
  7. Nabu casa at the matter member meeting
  8. Home assistant green now available
  9. Removal of myq integration
  10. Release 202311
  11. Security audits of home assistant
  12. Expected support for raspberry pi 5
  13. Home assistant os release 11
  14. Removal of mazda connected services integration
  15. Year of the voice chapter 4 wakewords
  16. Release 202310
  17. Philips hue force users upload data to cloud
  18. A refreshed logo for home assistant
  19. Home assistant green your entry to home assistant
  20. 10 years home assistant
  21. Coming soon 10 years ha
  22. Release 20239
  23. Release 20238
  24. Year of the voice chapter 3
  25. Release 20237
  26. Knx collaboration
  27. Release 20236
  28. Release 20235
  29. Year of the voice chapter 2
  30. Home assistant os release 10
  31. Homeseer partner
  32. Release 20234
  33. Android 20233
  34. Supervisor security disclosure
  35. Heltun partner
  36. Release 20233
  37. State of matter and thread
  38. Release 20232
  39. Year of the voice chapter 1
  40. Help others leave ai at the dor
  41. Android auto
  42. Release 20231

2022 30

  1. Year of voice
  2. Release 202212
  3. Release 202211
  4. Jasco partner
  5. Ultraloq partner
  6. Third reality partner
  7. Release 202210
  8. Short term solutions save energy and money europe
  9. The month of what the heck
  10. Release 20229
  11. Release 20228
  12. Leviton partner
  13. Partner program
  14. Release 20227
  15. Release 20226
  16. Matter in home assistant workshop announcement
  17. Home assistant os release 8
  18. Ukraine alarm
  19. Release 20225
  20. Creator network launched
  21. For insteon users
  22. Device to run home assistant
  23. Release 20224
  24. Cas content trust
  25. Release 20223
  26. Android february
  27. Improved homematic support
  28. Release 20222
  29. Streamlining experiences
  30. Android quest

2021 53

  1. Northeastern university home energy management
  2. The open home
  3. Stanford genie
  4. Android december 2021 release
  5. Ios multi server
  6. Release 202112
  7. Netdaemon release
  8. 100k analytics
  9. Release 202111
  10. User experiences and designers
  11. Release 202110
  12. Home assistant yellow
  13. Release 20219
  14. Supervisor update
  15. Release 20218
  16. Home energy management
  17. Release 20217
  18. Community highlights
  19. Community highlights
  20. Power up your esp projects
  21. Home assistant os release 6
  22. Community highlights
  23. Community highlights
  24. Release 20216
  25. Community highlights
  26. Community highlights
  27. Community highlights
  28. Integrations api
  29. Ios 20215
  30. Community highlights
  31. Release 20215
  32. Community highlights
  33. Community highlights
  34. Community highlights
  35. Community highlights
  36. Android april 2021 release
  37. Release 20214
  38. Community highlights
  39. Community highlights
  40. Community highlights
  41. Nabu casa has acquired esphome
  42. Community highlights
  43. Community highlights
  44. Android 2021 q1 releases
  45. Release 20213
  46. Community highlights
  47. Community highlights
  48. Community highlights
  49. Release 20212
  50. Security disclosure2
  51. Security disclosure
  52. Security bulletin
  53. Release 20211

2020 46

  1. Home assistant os release 5
  2. Release 202012
  3. Community highlights
  4. Tplink local access
  5. Release 118
  6. Android 300 release
  7. Release 117
  8. Supervisor 249
  9. Release 116
  10. Hacktoberfest 2020
  11. Community highlights
  12. Summing up the month of what the heck
  13. Mac companion
  14. Release 115
  15. Supervisor joins the party
  16. LEARN MORE
  17. Birthday week
  18. Android 240 release
  19. Android 230 release
  20. The month of what the heck
  21. Release 114
  22. Mobile apps new features
  23. Ios app migration
  24. Release 113
  25. Release 112
  26. Release 111
  27. Installation methods and community guides wiki
  28. Code of conduct updated
  29. Release 110
  30. Deprecating home assistant supervised on generic linux
  31. Release 109
  32. The future of yaml
  33. Release 108
  34. Release 107
  35. Community highlights
  36. Release 106 3
  37. Community highlights
  38. Release 106
  39. Community highlights
  40. Android 16 17 release
  41. Community highlights
  42. Release 105
  43. Community highlights
  44. Changing the home assistant brand
  45. Android 150 release
  46. Release 104

2019 38

  1. All i want is open standards
  2. Hassos release 3
  3. Release 103
  4. Sonos shutting down local voice option snips
  5. Home assistant for everyone
  6. State of the union
  7. Release 102
  8. Privacy focused voice assistant
  9. Release 101
  10. Rip hassbian
  11. Release 100
  12. Release 99
  13. Happy birthday
  14. Release 98
  15. Release 97
  16. LEARN MORE
  17. Piwheels
  18. Release 96
  19. Home assistant cast preview
  20. Release 95
  21. Release 94
  22. Release 93
  23. Nest data bye bye
  24. Update from the field
  25. Release 92
  26. Hassio ingress
  27. Release 91
  28. Android
  29. Release 90
  30. Release 89
  31. Release 88
  32. Hass cli 0 dot 5 area entity registry and event cli
  33. Release 87
  34. Introducing home assistant cli
  35. Nest cannot access data
  36. Lovelace released
  37. Release 86
  38. Release 85

2018 42

  1. Data science portal
  2. Logitech stance on local api
  3. Logitech harmony removes local api
  4. Release 84
  5. Release 83
  6. State of the union
  7. Release 82
  8. Release 81
  9. Release 80
  10. Hacktoberfest
  11. Release 79
  12. Release 78
  13. Thinking big
  14. Release 77
  15. Release 76
  16. Release 75
  17. Release 74
  18. Release 73 2
  19. Hassio images
  20. Release 73
  21. Release 72
  22. Release 71
  23. Esphomelib
  24. Release 70
  25. Release 69
  26. Release 68
  27. Developer site
  28. Launch google assistant support
  29. Hassio 2018
  30. Release 67
  31. Ubiquiti and home assistant
  32. Release 66
  33. Fedora atomic
  34. New release schedule
  35. Release 65
  36. Release 64
  37. Cloud update
  38. Release 63
  39. Disabling disqus
  40. Release 62
  41. Clarification emulated hue
  42. Release 61

2017 73

  1. Thank you
  2. Release 60
  3. Introducing home assistant cloud
  4. Release 59
  5. Hassio virtual machine
  6. Release 58
  7. Tor
  8. Ttn with mqtt
  9. Frontend translations
  10. Release 57
  11. Secure shell tunnel
  12. Demo
  13. Simple analog sensor
  14. Release 56
  15. Hasspodcast ep 10
  16. Templating date time
  17. Release 55
  18. Deprecating Python 3.4 support
  19. Home Assistant Podcast #9
  20. Participating in Hacktoberfest
  21. Effortless encryption with Let's Encrypt and DuckDNS
  22. Improved Hass.io build system
  23. 0.54: Todoist, DoorBird, Abode cameras
  24. Hassbian 1.3 - A bit of a stretch
  25. 0.53: Tesla, Customize editor, and super fast KNX rewrite
  26. 0.52: Scripts editor, Nello.io locks, HipChat and Abode Home Security
  27. 0.51: Massive history speed up, finished automation editor and official vacuum cleaner support
  28. Home Assistant Podcast #5
  29. 0.50: Voice control, History improvements, and Xiaomi
  30. Talk Python interview with Paulus Schoutsen
  31. Introducing Hass.io
  32. Home Assistant Podcast #4
  33. 0.49: Themes 🎨, kiosk mode and Prometheus.io
  34. Home Assistant Podcast #3
  35. Home Assistant is moving to Discord
  36. 0.48: Snips.ai, Shiftr.io and a massive History query speed up
  37. [Update: fixed] A frank and serious warning about X
  38. 0.47: Python Scripts, Sesame Smart Lock, Gitter, Onvif cameras
  39. ZWave Entity IDs
  40. Linux Action Show special about Home Assistant
  41. 0.46: Rachio sprinklers, Netgear Arlo cameras and Z-Wave fans
  42. Home Assistant Podcast 1
  43. Home Assistant 0.45: Automation editor, Z-Wave panel, OCR
  44. Home Assistant at PyCon US 2017
  45. Home Assistant on an Orange Pi Zero
  46. Grazer Linuxtage 2017: Python Everywhere
  47. Home Assistant 0.44: Zigbee, OpenCV and DLib
  48. Podcast.__init__ interview with Paulus Schoutsen
  49. Home Assistant on a Pi Zero W in 30 minutes
  50. HASSbian 1.21 - It's about time isn't it
  51. Setting up InfluxDB and Grafana using Docker
  52. Hardware Contest 2017
  53. Home Assistant 0.43: IKEA Trådfri, Spotify and our iOS app is live
  54. IKEA Trådfri: Internet of Things done right
  55. 1 year and 22 days ago I had an idea...
  56. Home Assistant 0.42: Eddystone Beacons, Lockitron locks and Total Connect alarm systems
  57. Thomas Krenn award 2017
  58. HTTP to MQTT bridge
  59. Home Assistant 0.41: Tado, Volumio, Workday, improved Plex
  60. OpenSourceCraft interviews our founder Paulus Schoutsen
  61. 0.40.2 and broken dependencies
  62. Home Assistant 0.40: Turn any Android phone into an IP Webcam
  63. 0.39: Configuration panel, state restoration and improved docs
  64. The Open Home Foundation merch store is here!
  65. Workshop at CLT 2017
  66. 0.38: Alert, AppleTV, MQTT discovery, and Yeelight
  67. HASSbian 1.1 - The Toy-box
  68. Smart Baby Monitor
  69. 0.37: Face detection, Coffee, Wink
  70. Home Assistant Governance [updated]
  71. Numbers
  72. 0.36: ISS, USPS, Image processing, Insteon
  73. Control My Christmas Tree Stats

2016 55

  1. Thank You
  2. 0.35: Text-to-speech, VLC, Flic, netdata
  3. 0.34: New Remote component, Websockets, Sonarr, GPSLogger
  4. 0.33: New Calendar component, Wink thermostats and Cisco IOS
  5. 0.32: Hacktoberfest, InfluxDB sensor, Error reporting, and Weather
  6. Explaining the Updater
  7. 0.31: Reading you the news, some serious business, spooky hackery and a breaking Z-Wave change
  8. 0.30: More Async, HASSbian, Digital Ocean, statistics, REST
  9. Participating in Hacktoberfest
  10. We have a Raspberry Pi image now
  11. 0.29: 🎈 Async, SleepIQ, OpenALPR, EmonCMS, stocks, and plants
  12. 0.28: Reload automation and groups, API documentation, car tracking, Pi-Hole stats
  13. ESP8266 and MicroPython - Part 2
  14. 0.27 is here to break eggs and take names: notifications, Hue fakery, safety and unification come to Home Assistant
  15. Github-style calendar heatmap of device data
  16. We Have Apps Now
  17. 0.26: Foursquare, Fast.com, FFMPEG and GPSD
  18. Optimizing the Home Assistant mobile web app
  19. Laundry Sensors with NodeMCU and Home Assistant
  20. 0.25: Custom frontend panels, Jupyter notebooks, DirecTV.
  21. ESP8266 and MicroPython - Part 1
  22. IoT Data Exploration with Jupyter Notebooks
  23. Visualize your IoT data
  24. 0.24: SQLAlchemy, KNX, Join by Joaoapps, and SimpliSafe.
  25. PocketCHIP running Home Assistant
  26. 0.23: Envisalink, Homematic, HDMI-CEC and Sony Bravia TV
  27. Using USB webcams with Home Assistant
  28. 0.22: Pandora, BT Home Hub 5 and local file camera.
  29. Home Assistant at PyCon 2016
  30. 0.21: Improved Web and support for EnOcean, LIRC and Osram Lightify
  31. Community Highlights
  32. iBeacons: How to track things that can’t track themselves (part II)
  33. Raspberry Pi all-in-one installer
  34. 0.20: Roku, Last.fm, AWS, Twilio
  35. Why we use web components and Polymer
  36. Video: How To Configure Home Assistant
  37. 0.19: Empowering scripts and Alexa
  38. Talk: Automating your home with Home Assistant (OpenIoT Summit)
  39. iBeacons: Making presence detection work better (part I)
  40. 0.18: Bluetooth, LG WebOS TVs and Roombas.
  41. To Infinity and Beyond 🚀
  42. Updated documentation
  43. 0.17: Onkyo, Panasonic, GTFS and config validation
  44. Static website
  45. Your hub should be local and open
  46. 0.16: Embedded MQTT broker, Uber, Yamaha receivers and Growl
  47. 0.15: Unforked Open Z-Wave, templated service calls, extended scene support and PEP257 compliance.
  48. 0.14: Steam, D-Link smart plugs and Neurio Energy Sensors
  49. Community Highlights
  50. Multi-room audio with Snapcast, Mopidy, and Home Assistant
  51. 0.13: Speedtest.net, Bloomsky, Splunk and Garage Doors
  52. Classifying the Internet of Things
  53. Smarter SmartThings with MQTT and Home Assistant
  54. 0.12: Insteon, LIFX, Twitter and Zigbee
  55. 0.11: Extended support for DIY solutions

2015 36

  1. 0.10: Amazon Echo, iCloud, Dweet.io, Twitch and templating support!
  2. Set up encryption using Let's Encrypt
  3. [Update: decision reversed!] Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
  4. Activating Tasker tasks from Home Assistant using command line switches
  5. InfluxDB and Grafana
  6. 0.9: Rollershutters, locks, binary sensors and InfluxDB
  7. Community Highlights
  8. Survey November 2015
  9. 0.8: Honeywell Thermostats, Orvibo switches and Z-Wave switches and lights
  10. 0.7.6: Amazon FireTV, Radiotherm thermostats
  11. 0.7.5: Blinkstick, SNMP, Telegram
  12. Report the temperature with ESP8266 to MQTT
  13. Home Assistant goes geo with OwnTracks
  14. Alarms, Sonos and iTunes now supported
  15. Remote Monitoring with Glances
  16. Home Assistant meets IFTTT
  17. Using MQTT with Home Assistant
  18. 0.7: Better UI and improved distribution
  19. Laundry Automation: insight and notifications
  20. Verisure devices and modern TP-Link routers now supported
  21. MQTT, Rasperry Pi, Logitech Squeezebox and ASUSWRT routers now supported
  22. IP Cameras, Arduinos, Kodi and Efergy Energy Monitors now supported
  23. Release notes for June 10, 2015
  24. Release notes for May 14, 2015
  25. UTC & Time zone awareness
  26. Release notes for April 25, 2015
  27. Release notes for March 22, 2015
  28. Release notes for March 11, 2015
  29. New logo for Home Assistant
  30. Home Assistant moving to YAML
  31. Streaming updates
  32. Looking at the past
  33. Release notes for January 24, 2015
  34. Nest in the house!
  35. Bootstrapping your setup with Discovery
  36. Hello PushBullet, nice talking to you

2014 2

  1. Home Control, Automation & the Smart Home
  2. Website launched!

Undated 54

  1. Read our founder's vision for the perfect home automation
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