If you missed the State of the Open Home 2024, check out our blog to catch up.

🏠 Launching the Open Home Foundation
‼️ HA's road to 1m installs
🎙️ Teasing upcoming hardware
🕶️ Our roadmap and upcoming features
🔖 Chapter breakdowns of the livestream

Read on 👇🏼
home-assistant.io/blog/2024/04/2…

Happy Home Assistant Beta Day! 🎉

Want to get in on the action early? Join our #Beta Channel on Discord and start testing! It is pretty darn easy and always a fun ride.

discord.gg/home-assistant

See you there! 🤗

#HomeAssistant #OpenHome #SmartHome #Beta
discord.gg/home-assistant

Hey ecobee - we noticed that you are no longer accepting dev accounts with no ETA on when they will open. This means new Home Assistant users who want to use the ecobee integration can't set it up nor can users access their own data. How can we help get your API open again?

Actions speak louder than words. Check out today’s stream to see how we’re taking action.

Introducing the Open Home Foundation, a new non-profit launched to fight for smart home principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability.

Read more 👇🏼
openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcin…

ICYMI - The April Open Home newsletter was published! This month's update has the launch of the Open Home Foundation, but also:

⚙️ What's new in HA 2024.4
🤓 Community projects with 3D-printing & bin reminders
📰 News from the industry

Read it in full 👇🏼
newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/announcing-the…

The little smart home platform that could trib.al/hMnilnQ

State of the Open Home 2024 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Just finished the last rehearsal! Tonight I will be co-hosting the event with Paulus Schoutsen | @[email protected]! Don’t miss the State of the Open Home tonight!

Some big ass huge announcements are inbound!!!

#HomeAssistant #OpenHome

📢 ONE HOUR - JUST ONE HOUR UNTIL THE 2024 STATE OF THE OPEN HOME STREAM 📢

We have people from HA, WLED, ESPHome, Rhasspy, Zigbee2MQTT, and Z-Wave JS ready to talk about all the cool things we have done since our last SOTOH and where we're going next.

SEE YOU THERE! 🙌🏻

‼️ Just 24 hours until our State of the Open Home livestream! We're all so excited to share with you what we've worked on and where we're heading next.

See you at the stream, save the link below! 👇🏼

Our friends at ESPHome pushed their 2024.4 release to stable today! 🎉

In this release you'll find:
🕓 You can set time entities in the frontend
🤖 Support for sending and receiving audio to/from voice assistants via API

Catch up on these and more 👇🏼
esphome.io/changelog/2024…

This month's update to our Android companion app came with some neat improvements! 🙌🏻

🛜 A new BLE transmitter setting was added
🔔 GIFs will now render notifications

Huge thanks to our community members who helped this month! 🎉 Full release notes: github.com/home-assistant…

Missed our stream yesterday with the winners of the voice assistant contest? Don't worry, you're not alone - we had some YouTube Live issues. 😅

We've uploaded the full livestream recording so you can catch up with all the fun we had! 🙌🏻 youtu.be/ne0mbcTWhsA

‼️ We're just 10 days away from the State of the Open Home 2024 livestream!

🗓️ Mark your calendars for April 20th at 18:00 GMT / 2:00 PM ET, you don't want to miss what we have in store. 🙌🏻

Livestream link below, click the 'Notify me' button on YouTube for a reminder!👇🏼

Voice Assistant Contest Winners livestream twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

📢 TWO HOUR REMINDER 📢

Today we'll be talking with all 4 category winners of our voice assistant contest live! Join us as we celebrate the creativity of our community. 🤖

YouTube livestream link is 👇🏼

📢 24 hours until our next livestream! 🙌🏻 Join us tomorrow with the 4 winners of our voice assistant contest as they give us more insight into their winning projects. Livestream link here: youtube.com/watch?v=eOfV3v…

And ICYMI, here are the winning projects 👇🏼