Home AssistantWatch the State of the Open Home 2024 stream, featuring speakers from Home Assistant, WLED, Zigbee2MQTT, Rhasspy and Z-Wave JS, and see the unveiling of a new non-profit: the Open Home Foundation, launched to fight for the smart home principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability! Also talked about in this year's event are the successes from Year of the Voice, ESPHome, Home Assistant, and so much more.
00:00 Countdown 0:00:11 Introduction video 0:01:12 Opening 0:02:36 Announcing the Open Home Foundation - Paulus Schoutsen 0:18:31 Panel with Open Home Foundation collabs - WLED, Zigbee2MQTT, Rhasspy, Z-Wave JS 0:36:31 Voice - Michael Hansen 0:53:08 Home Assistant - Franck Nijhof 1:21:37 Hardware - Uwe Bernitt 1:40:21 Panel on Open Standards - Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Bluetooth 2:07:29 Future - Madelena Mak 2:37:33 Closing 2:39:22 Stream end, live chat active
State of the Open Home 2024Home Assistant2024-04-20 | Watch the State of the Open Home 2024 stream, featuring speakers from Home Assistant, WLED, Zigbee2MQTT, Rhasspy and Z-Wave JS, and see the unveiling of a new non-profit: the Open Home Foundation, launched to fight for the smart home principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability! Also talked about in this year's event are the successes from Year of the Voice, ESPHome, Home Assistant, and so much more.
00:00 Countdown 0:00:11 Introduction video 0:01:12 Opening 0:02:36 Announcing the Open Home Foundation - Paulus Schoutsen 0:18:31 Panel with Open Home Foundation collabs - WLED, Zigbee2MQTT, Rhasspy, Z-Wave JS 0:36:31 Voice - Michael Hansen 0:53:08 Home Assistant - Franck Nijhof 1:21:37 Hardware - Uwe Bernitt 1:40:21 Panel on Open Standards - Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Bluetooth 2:07:29 Future - Madelena Mak 2:37:33 Closing 2:39:22 Stream end, live chat active
Catch up on all the changes we talked about on the release blog here: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/10/02/release-202410Home Assistant 11th Anniversary Celebration #HA11Home Assistant2024-09-17 | Watch our anniversary celebration, as Home Assistant is turning 11 years old! This year, we're celebrating our community—come see how it has evolved over the years and hear the future plans we've been brewing for you.
0:00:00 Compilation of thanks from our code owners 0:02:00 Intro from Missy and Bearded Tinker 0:05:00 What does community mean to you? 0:13:00 Beta testing and how stable is a dot zero release? 0:18:00 Keeping the community on course 0:22:00 The Evolution of the Community 0:31:00 Moving to date versioning 0:37:00 Customizability of Home Assistant and HACS 0:47:00 Changing names of things in Home Assistant 0:55:00 How we began to focus more on UX and UI 1:03:00 Moving the focus away from YAML, while keeping it in 1:09:00 Smart home vs automated home 1:16:00 The beginnings of beta 1:21:00 Bringing in a community manager 1:27:00 Discord changes 1:30:00 What’s next for the community - Home Assistant Day announcement 1:34:00 What do you want to see evolve in the community? 1:41:00 How the community can support Home Assistant2024.9 Release Highlights #homeassistant #homeautomation #smarthomeHome Assistant2024-09-11 | Missed our 2024.9 Release Party and looking for a quick run down on what's new? Here's your regularly scheduled "we got you" video! 😌
Catch up on all the changes in this month's release blog here: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/09/04/release-202492024.8 Release HighlightsHome Assistant2024-08-14 | ‼️ Missed last week's release party live stream? Don't have 2 hours to catch up or time to read the release blog?
Don't stress! Here's a short 1 minute video showcasing the 2024.8 changes. 😌
The release notes blog is available here: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/08/07/release-20248Whats New in Dashboards Chapter 2Home Assistant2024-07-24 | Designers and dashboard card developers - we're looking for you! In this stream, you will see what progress we have made on the dashboard updates we introduced in Project Grace, including a design framework to help you get involved with improving our existing dashboard cards.
And if you don't have an hour to catch up, we have everything ready for you in a blog: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/07/26/dashboard-chapter-22024.7 Release HighlightsHome Assistant2024-07-10 | ‼️ Missed the live stream for 2024.7 and don't have 2 hours to catch up? This 1 minute video of what's new to Home Assistant should help you out! 😌
Blog post: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/05/release-20246Whats new in the 2024.5 Home Assistant iOS Companion app #homeassistant #shortsHome Assistant2024-05-24 | New to the Home Assistant Companion app on iOS: launch Assist with your iPhone's action button and launch Assist using a custom command in Accessibility options! (Now with easier to view subtitles!) This video shows you them in action, so be sure to check out our blog post for details on how to get it set up.
Blog post: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/01/release-20245Voice Assistant Contest Winners livestreamHome Assistant2024-04-11 | On April 10th, join us with the winners of each category of our voice assistant contest to learn about the entries they submitted and how they built them!
You can read more about the winners before the livestream here: home-assistant.io/blog/20...More ways to follow us: Newsletter: building.open-home.io/#/portal/signup Blog: home-assistant.io/blog Discord (chat): home-assistant.io/join-chat Forums: community.home-assistant.io Reddit: reddit.com/r/homeassistant Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: twitter.com/home_assistantHome Assistant 2024.4 Release PartyHome Assistant2024-04-03 | Home Assistant 2024.4 is launching, so it's time to party. Join our live stream and discuss the new features with some of the dev team.And the winners of our Voice Assistant Community Contest are 🥁 ...Home Assistant2024-03-21 | 2023 was the Year of the Voice. It was a goal for the year to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. In 2024, we organized a contest to celebrate what our voice assistants could enable with the community. The contest entries have all been amazing, and the work produced is outstanding. It was a tough choice, but these are the winners!
More ways to follow us: Newsletter: building.open-home.io/#/portal/signup Blog: home-assistant.io/blog Discord (chat): home-assistant.io/join-chat Forums: community.home-assistant.io Reddit: reddit.com/r/homeassistant Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: twitter.com/home_assistantHome Assistant 2024.3 Release PartyHome Assistant2024-03-06 | Home Assistant 2024.3 is launching, so it's time to party. Join our live stream and discuss the new features with some of the dev team.A Home-Approved Dashboard - Chapter 1: What about Grace?Home Assistant2024-02-29 | Grace Hopper was a computer scientist, mathematician, and US Navy admiral who had made significant contributions to the field of computer programming and technology, from her pioneering work on and contributions to the Harvard Mark I computer, COBOL, and UNIVAC I. Why is Grace important to us? Well, we have a habit of naming our projects after influential women in tech. And we have been working on a little something special we can’t wait to show you!On-device wake word is here! Demonstrating microWakeWord on the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 in Home Assistant.Home Assistant2024-02-21 | We've introduced a brand new wake-word system! Thanks to the incredible microWakeWord, ESPHome can now perform wake word detection directly on devices like the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 (including the discontinued S3-BOX and S3-BOX-Lite). This makes the wake-word detection very fast, and no data will be sent from your voice satellite to Home Assistant until you've said the wake word.
During Year of the Voice Chapter 4, we initially added wake word detection using openWakeWord. Because openWakeWord was too large to run on low-power devices like S3-BOX-3, we chose to run wake-word detection inside Home Assistant instead. This allows a tiny device like the M5 ATOM Echo to simply stream audio and let the processing happen elsewhere. The downside is that adding more voice assistants causes more network traffic and requires more CPU usage in Home Assistant.
Thanks to Kevin Ahrendt, who created microWakeWord, we can now run wake word detection on the ESP32-S3 chip inside the S3-BOX-3!
More ways to follow us: Newsletter: building.open-home.io/#/portal/signup Blog: home-assistant.io/blog Discord (chat): home-assistant.io/join-chat Forums: community.home-assistant.io Reddit: reddit.com/r/homeassistant Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: twitter.com/home_assistantVoice - Chapter 6Home Assistant2024-02-21 | Even though our Year of the Voice ended in 2023, that does not mean the development of our voice assistant has stopped! In this chapter, we're excited to show you what we've been working on since Chapter 5 last year. Thanks to the incredible new microWakeWord (Thanks to Kevin Ahrendt), ESPHome can now perform wake word detection directly on devices like the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 (including the discontinued S3-BOX and S3-BOX-Lite). This makes the wake-word detection very fast, and no data will be sent from your voice satellite to Home Assistant until you've said the wake word.
CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions. Custom actions allow users to create advanced action sequences like unlocking the front door and turning on the porch lights. And all of this works across the multiple Home Assistant servers you have configured in the app.
Chapters 0:00 Carplay in Home Assistant 0:22 Control tab 0:47 Areas tab 1:07 Actions tab 2:04 Introducing Pierre's demo 2:27 Demonstrating opening the garage door 3:01 Demonstrating turning off the lights 3:15 Demonstrating closing the garage door
More ways to follow us: Newsletter: building.open-home.io/#/portal/signup Blog: home-assistant.io/blog Discord (chat): home-assistant.io/join-chat Forums: community.home-assistant.io Reddit: reddit.com/r/homeassistant Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: twitter.com/home_assistantVoice Assistant Contest LaunchHome Assistant2024-01-17 | 2023 was the Year of the Voice. It was a yearly goal to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. What we built during the Year of the Voice allows almost anyone to build a voice assistant that embodies our Open Home values perfectly: Personalized, Private, and Sustainable. Every component of our voice assistants can be heavily customized to fit your language, your style, and your needs. Fully local options exist for each of them, and finally, you can retrofit your voice assistant into anything, even a 1970s Walkie Talkie found in a flea market!
In this live stream, we explain how each component works and guide you through building your own voice assistant!
Chapters: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:07:59 - The contest Specifics 0:20:18 - Everything you need to know to use voice in Home Assistant 0:23:42 - Using Assist via text on Home Assistant 0:25:46 - Using Aliases on Entities and Areas to create more natural sentences 0:27:32 - Exposing specific entities to Assist 0:28:31 - Create our own trigger sentence easily with automations 0:31:29 - Setting up a Voice pipeline with Home Assistant Cloud 0:34:48 - Setting up a Local Voice pipeline with Whisper and Piper 0:39:45 - An example of a local Voice pipeline on better hardware 0:41:30 - Setting up openWakeWord on our Voice pipelines 0:46:16 - Setting up porcupine1 on our Voice pipelines 0:49:25 - Create your own wake word with openWakeWord 0:51:00 - Using community wake word in openWakeWord 0:54:27 - Building a voice assistant based on Wyoming Satellite 1:01:37 - Local Wake Word detection on a Wyoming Satellite 1:07:53 - Building a voice assistant based on ESPHome 1:08:58 - Presenting the components we will use 1:12:54 - Wiring all the components 1:23:55 - Building the first version of the firmware 1:46:47 - Improving the firmware with noise suppression and LED feedback 2:01:32 - Adding the ability to mute our voice assistant 2:11:32 - Building the last version of the firmware 2:20:00 - Wrapping upThe State Of MatterHome Assistant2024-01-10 | During this livestream we explain what Matter can offer you in Home Assistant today. We show you the potential Matter has for the future and how your first steps with Matter today prepare you for that. We talk about what Thread is, how it relates to Matter - it is not the same! - and how to build your Thread network. And much more.
This is an excellent watch for both beginners and more technically oriented viewers, with our product manager explaining Matter in the simplest terms, to our Matter developers giving you a technical deep-dive into Matter.
0:00 Intro 0:03:33 Our Vision on Matter 0:08:45 Demystifying Matter and Thread 0:44:12 How to use Matter in Home Assistant 1:14:10 Our plans for Matter support in Home Assistant 1:26:49 Using Home Assistant SkyConnect or Home Assistant Yellow 1:47:12 Technical deep dive into Matter and Thread 2:15:39 Your asked questionsHome Assistant 2024.1 Release PartyHome Assistant2024-01-03 | Happy New Year! Time for the first release of the year: Home Assistant 2024.1. Time to party! Join our live stream and discuss the new features with some of the dev team.Okay Frenck! Open-source voice assistant running on an Espressif ESP32-S3-Box in Home AssistantHome Assistant2023-12-14 | Frenck is always the life of the (release) party when we're live-streaming. And now he can be the life of your party! Get Frenck as your open-source voice assistant, decked out in his Christmas finest! 🎄🎉🎅
After all, haven't we all secretly wanted Frenck at our beck and call? 😆
Our voice assistant comes with our mascot by default, but if you want to customize it - with Frenck or with your own images - check out our customization tutorial: home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3-box-customize
For more information on Assist and building other open-source voice assistants, you can read: home-assistant.io/voice_control
Don't know who Frenck is yet? Watch one of our release party livestreams and get to know the team! youtube.com/live/2o-Uw5ZGd0M
Our voice assistant comes with our mascot by default, but if you want to customize it - with Jarvis or with your own images - check out our customization tutorial: home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3-box-customize
If you have an Apple device, their Animoji/Memoji can be a simple way to generate different face images for your assistant. That's where this Jarvis got its robot face: support.apple.com/en-us/HT208986
For more information on Assist and building other open-source voice assistants, you can read: home-assistant.io/voice_control
Our voice assistant comes with this mascot by default, but if you want to customize it with your own images, check out our customization tutorial: home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3-box-customize
For more information on Assist and building other open-source voice assistants, you can read: home-assistant.io/voice_control
More ways to follow us: Newsletter: building.open-home.io/#/portal/signup Blog: home-assistant.io/blog Discord (chat): home-assistant.io/join-chat Forums: community.home-assistant.io Reddit: reddit.com/r/homeassistant Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: twitter.com/home_assistantArea awareness with Home Assistants open-source voice assistantsHome Assistant2023-12-14 | When you install our voice assistants in several rooms in your house, it's natural to say "turn on the lights" and expect only the lights in that specific room to turn on. With area awareness, this happens automatically in Home Assistant! This command will now turn on all of the lights in the current area, and “turn off the lights” will do the opposite. You can still target the lights in a different area, of course, by specifying: “turn on the lights in the bedroom”.
Although the Year of Voice is coming to a close, voice in Home Assistant is just getting started! Mike “The Voice” Hansen will continue at Nabu Casa to improve and extend the voice and natural language capabilities of Home Assistant.
More about Year of the Voice @ home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voiceWake word demonstration on ESPHome-based 3D printed droid in Home Assistant | Year of the VoiceHome Assistant2023-10-12 | If there's one thing people have been asking for during the Year of the Voice, it's wake word. The ability to say something like "OK Google," "Hey Siri," or "Alexa" to make your smart home automatically listen to your commands. Guess what - we did it. Wake word is now available in Home Assistant. This video demonstrates a 3D-printed R5 droid voice assistant based on ESPHome, using a wake word to control the lights.
More ways to follow us: Newsletter: building.open-home.io Blog: home-assistant.io/blog Discord (chat): home-assistant.io/join-chat Forums: community.home-assistant.io Reddit: reddit.com/r/homeassistant Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@homeassistant Twitter/X: twitter.com/home_assistantWake word demonstration on Raspberry Pi and custom ESP32 board in Home Assistant | Year of the VoiceHome Assistant2023-10-12 | If there's one thing people have been asking for during the Year of the Voice, it's wake word. The ability to say something like "OK Google," "Hey Siri," or "Alexa" to make your smart home automatically listen to your commands. Guess what - we did it. Wake word is now available in Home Assistant. In this video, we demonstrate wake word detection on a Raspberry Pi 3 and an ESP32 board.
Thank you for celebrating our 10th anniversary with us!
Chapters: 00:00 Happy birthday, Home Assistant! 00:56 Opening 01:39 10 Years of Home Assistant 05:07 Ryan Kraus 13:05 Tobias Sauerwein 22:17 Pascal Vizeli 32:25 Bram Kragten 40:54 Franck Nijhof 53:37 Pierre Clement (Custom domains) 1:00:51 The Open Home 1:05:15 Madelena Mak (Logo) 1:14:21 One More Thing... (Home Assistant Green) 1:27:58 Thank you!Home Assistant 2023.9 Release PartyHome Assistant2023-09-06 | Home Assistant 2023.9 is launching, so it's time to party. Join our live stream and discuss the new features with some of the dev team.Home Assistant Year of the Voice, Part 3Home Assistant2023-08-17 | We’re in part 3 of our Year of the Voice journey. home-assistant.io/blog/2023/07/20/year-of-the-voice-chapter-3
Ready to have a conversation with your home? This video gives an overview of different ways to control Home Assistant with your voice today: