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Open source home automation that puts local control & privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers & DIY enthusiasts.
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Time to say farewell 2025 and hello 2026. 😌 It's because of you, the community, that we were able to make 2025 our best year yet. 👏🏻

From all of us, to you and yours: here's to all the blessings we hope 2026 will bring. 🥂 #HappyNewYear

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A simple graphic of a stamp on a red background, created by our graphic artist Clelia Rella. The stamp has a beige border with a black background. Aligned to the bottom left of the stamp is the year 2026 stacked on itself in white text; from the bottom right branches out green sprigs of evergreen in the style of our antenna lines, it weaves through the numbers. Aligned to the top left in white is the Home Assistant logo and name. The red background has darker red shaded snowflakes with a few wavy lines aligned near the bottom left as if a postal carrier stamped an envelope the Home Assistant stamp is on. Under the stamp in white text reads: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Happy #NationalUglySweaterDay! What started in the US has become an international event as we embrace the beauty in ugly. 😌

Today we're showing off our ugly sweaters: now show us your best! 🤩 Or maybe share a design you'd like to see in our merch store for Holidays 2026... 👀

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Paulus Schoutsen, Founder of Home Assistant, sits in his office looking left off-camera wearing a red, black, green, and off-white GitHub ugly sweater obtained from GitHub Universe 2024; across his chest in text is "GitHub", the green sections have GitHub iconography patterned around, and the heads of Mona and Copilot in the off-white section. The wall behind him is white 3D-printed panels, with a Home Assistant Green poster and a block star from Mario Bros on a table. He's sporting a scruffy beard and the "Home Assistant haircut" (meaning, no head hair). Framed around the image is a red border with "@PAULUS" in white text in the top right, the white Home Assistant logo in the bottom left, and "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER DAY" in white text is vertical in both the top left and bottom right. JLo Pouffier, Lead of Product & UX @ the Open Home Foundation, sits at a table in his home in his green party dog ugly sweater, holding a mug as if toasting the onlooker; the party dog has red sunglasses & sequin party hat on, surrounded by a pattern of candy, ornaments, & stockings. On the table lays Home Assistant hardware devices, a 2-way radio, and at least 1000 stacked business cards, and the TV behind him has Now, Next, Later roadmap items intentionally left blank. He's smiling at the camera with his black hair short, sporting a full beard, and he's wearing round wire-framed glasses; the arm holding the mug is tattooed. Framed around the image is a red border with "@JLO" in white text in the top right, the white Home Assistant logo in the bottom left, and "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER DAY" in white text is vertical in both the top left and bottom right. Missy Quarry, Community & Social Media Manager @ the Open Home Foundation, is wearing Microsoft's infamous blue and green Clippy ugly sweater in front of her Yule tree holding 2 Furby Connect dolls in her hands - her current tinkering project; the left Furby is pink and the right one is teal. Clippy has a text bubble next to him with the text "Happy Holidays!" in it and an "ok" button below. She's smiling at the camera with her dark green curly hair down, wearing large cat's eye glasses with black frames and an intricate rose gold nose ring. Framed around the image is a red border with "@MISSY" in white text in the top right, the white Home Assistant logo in the bottom left, and "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER DAY" in white text is vertical in both the top left and bottom right.
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.12 🎄

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12...

Labs with Winter mode ❄️, purpose-specific triggers and conditions for automations 🧠, system-wide default dashboards 📱, real-time power monitoring ⚡ and much more to close out 2025!

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December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Our WWHA partners at @apolloautomation.bsky.social released their 2025 Holiday Ornament, the H-2. All proceeds go to non-profits & this year they're donating a portion to the @openhomefoundation.org! ❄️ Just in time for the holidays ➡️ apolloautomation.com/products/apo...

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The H-2 device is gently hung on an evergreen plant decorated with holly and pinecones; the plant has a metal reindeer head to the left of it. The H-2 is a white, snowflake-shaped PCB with LEDs on the branches and Apollo's "A" logo carved in the center. White text at the top reads, "Apollo x Open Home Foundation", and at the bottom center is the Works With Home Assistant badge.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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📣 INTRODUCING HOME ASSISTANT CONNECT ZBT-2 🥳

Designed by our friends at Nabu Casa, the successor to ZBT-1 is the best way to easily connect your Zigbee or Thread devices to Home Assistant. 💪🏻

Find where to get yours today ➡️ www.home-assistant.io/connect/zbt-...

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November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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‼️ SAVE THE DATE - NOVEMBER 19 ‼️

We're excited to share the next piece of hardware in the Connect series. 👏🏻 Join us in ONE WEEK @ 12:00PM PT / 3:00PM ET / 21:00 CET to see how we made the best better. Hit that 🔔 so you don't miss out! ➡️ youtube.com/live/HSRvso6...
A teaser image in a deep blue color palette for our next piece of hardware in the Connect series. On the right, in dark shadows with a little light coming from the left, is a device that looks similar to the Connect ZWA-2 but is in fact not that device - it's a little smaller; it sits on a circle that has geometric waves in it. Aligned to the bottom left is white text that reads: SAVE THE DATE The best just got better November 19 @ 12:00PM Pacific / 3:00PM Eastern / 21:00 CET /text At the top left in white is the Home Assistant logo and name.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.11 is here! 🎉

🎯 Brand new target picker with full context
🤖 New way to add triggers, conditions, and actions
🏷️ Flexible entity naming in dashboard cards
🥧 Energy pie charts!

Plus tons of new integrations and improvements!

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/11...
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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😯 We did it again - we made the @github.com Octoverse report as a top open source project on GitHub! 🥳

We can't understate it: it's because of the community that we accomplished this. Thousands of you contributed to this achievement - here's to you! #OpenSource🍻
A graphic with a dark blue palette celebrating our success, created by our designer, Clelia Rella. In then center of the graphic is the GitHub logo surrounded by geometric shapes. White text above the logo reads: Home Assistant We did it again! home-assistant/core was a top open source project on GitHub in 2025. /end text
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It's #InternationalArtistDay and we'd like to take today to highlight the one who creates all our beautiful designs - meet Clelia! 🥰

She's Team NO 🍍🍕 & loves 📚. Her creative mind is behind the art you see on our blogs, social, and the Open Home newsletter! 😍
A simple drawing of Clelia Rella, designed by herself, on a white background. Her caricature is aligned to the middle right on a Home Assistant blue circle shape - the drawing is a smiling woman with dark long hair and glasses. Around the circle shape on the left are a few items, from top to bottom: a pizza slice with a hand says "Team NO pineapple on pizza", a cat reading a book says "Book ❤️ Lover", a pencil over paper says "Creative mind". Below her caricature is another item, keyboard keys with Ps, Ai, ld, and Ae on them (the initials of the products she uses to design assets). Text aligned to the bottom left reads: (in black text) Meet the team (in light blue text) Clelia (in dark text) Marketing Designer /end text In the top right and left of the image are the Home Assistant and Open Home Foundation logos and text, respectively.
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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California, we're hosting meetups in your state - yes, plural! 🙌🏻 Join some of us next Monday, Oct 27, in both San Francisco & San Diego. A rare double party! 🥳

SF details: luma.com/29h4hx3b
SD details: luma.com/j533g5a9

Register asap - space is limited! 👀
A social graphic using the image designed for the postcards we offer as swag to the community during our meetups, created by our graphic artist Clelia Rella. The theme is Northern and Southern California on a blue color palette; a trolley from San Francisco appears to be traveling right to left in the image in front of an ocean view with palm trees representing Southern California. White text aligned to the bottom left reads: <blue logo> Home Assistant Community Meetup /end white text In a cyan box next to the word Meetup has the date in black text reading: Monday, Oct 27
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.10 🎃

Undo/redo + resizable sidebar in automations 🤖, predicting home dashboard, AI image generation 🪄, dual wake words, new code editor toolbar 🛠️ …and a bunch more goodies!

👉 Read full release: home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/01/release-202510/

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October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Just some #YAMLProblems... 😅

Happy Programmer's Day, y'all! 🩵
A 6-panel comic of Casita, the Home Assistant mascot, sitting at her HA-branded laptop complaining about an issue in her YAML code. Comic was drawn by our graphic artist, Clelia Rella, and based off another meme. Panel 1 - Black text on a Home Assistant blue background reads, "A typical day in a programmer's {life();}" The misplacement of the semi-colon is intentional. Panel 2 - Casita is frustrated, arms crossed. "I hate this hobby", she says. Panel 3 - Casita is sobbing, her arms in a "why" pose. "and i hate my life" Panel 4 - Casita is now fuming, looking as if she's going to pull her non-existent hair. Thought bubble looks like it's on fire. "why is this happening to meeeeee", she whines. Panel 5 - Casita looks embarrassed face and her pointer fingers touching. "never mind. missed a space" Panel 6 - Black text on a Home Assistant blue background reads, "The end". On the bottom right of the panel is the Home Assistant name and logo.
September 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🎉 Home Assistant 2025.9 is here... and it's MASSIVE!

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/09...

A sidebar for the automation editor 🤖, tons of new tile card features 📈, a brand new Home dashboard ✨, analog clocks 🕘, storage insights 💾, and much more!

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September 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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✨What's new in Home Assistant? ✨

2025.8 introduces two new features for LLMs, AI tasks and AI suggestions, as well as an updated energy dashboard. Check them out 👇🏼

Catch up on everything new in 2025.8 ➡️ www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08...

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August 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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🏠 Home Assistant 2025.8 is here! The summer ☀️ of AI ✨

📢 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08...

AI Tasks unlock new powers 🤖, lightning-fast streaming TTS 🔊, easier control of individual light group members 💡, weekday time triggers 📅, and a brand-new energy flow chart ⚡️

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August 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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✨What's new in Home Assistant? ✨
2025.7 release was filled with so many good things we're bringing you 3 feature highlight videos this month! 🎉

Here's the final video: Chapter 3 - Sub-entities & credential sharing!

Read more 👉🏻 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07...

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July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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✨What's new in Home Assistant? ✨
2025.7 release was filled with so many good things we're bringing you 3 feature highlight videos this month! 🎉

Here's Chapter 2 - Area card and dashboard improvements!

Catch all the latest 👉🏻 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07...

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July 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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✨ What's new in Home Assistant? ✨
2025.7 was filled with so many good things we're bringing you 3 feature highlight videos this month! 🎉

Here's Chapter 1 - Assist asks the questions!

Find the blueprint & what else is new this release on our blog 👉🏻 www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07...

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July 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.7 is out! 😎

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/07...

Let Assist take the conversation initiative using the “Ask Question” action. Enjoy the new Area card, full-screen code editors, and a fresh look for the integration page. And, of course… there are even more goodies!

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July 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"But Missy, how do we add an event with the beautiful images created for Community Day?"

So happy you asked! We've made the base assets publicly available for everyone to use - just download them here ➡️ drive.google.com/drive/folder...
A vertical social graphic created for general meetups for the community, identical to the calendar's banner on Luma. In the top 2/3rds of the image is a person made with shapes that look like leaves and a circle in black, surrounding by white leaf shapes around it on our on brand blue color palette - some of the shapes look like other people. At the bottom in large black text reads "Home Assistant Community Meetup". A 1:1 (square) social graphic created for general meetups for the community, identical to the calendar's banner on Luma. In the top right portion of the image is a person made with shapes that look like leaves and a circle in black, surrounding by white leaf shapes around it on our on brand blue color palette - some of the shapes look like other people. At the bottom in large black text reads "Home Assistant Community Meetup".
June 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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From our families to yours - Happy #PrideMonth! 🤎🖤🩷🩵🤍💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
A simple graphic created by our Graphic Artist, Clelia Rella, that says "love always wins". Every letter is a different color of the inclusive Pride flag on a light background, celebrating every shade. At the bottom in black text reads "CELEBRATE EVERY SHADE." At the top is the Home Assistant logo and name.
June 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.6 🎉

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/06...

Beautiful Bluetooth connection graphs, revamped pickers across the UI, improved sidebar management, and you can now (un)group media players right from your dashboards. And there’s more!

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June 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Our Android Companion app users can also enjoy an update this week to version 2025.5.3! 🎉 What can you all expect in this release?

✅ 6 new Health Connect sensors
👀 Improved Todo widget design
🐛 General bug fixes

Download or update today ➡️ play.google.com/store/apps/d...
A screenshot from an Android device showing the new changes for the Todo widget in light mode. The wallpaper on the image is a beautiful collection of orchid flower heads on a black background. There is a large widget on the top for a Shopping List with Active items of Eggs, Bread, and Super long test that should be dissplayed on very small widget I wonder how it will render; there is a single Completed task of Milk that has strikethrough on it. Under the widget are 2 others - the left one is a calendar widget with a couple items on the schedule, Home Assistant Sync on Monday the 5th and National Holidays for WWII Victory Day and Fête de la Victoire 1945 on Thursday the 8th; the right one is another todo list labeled Test with the items Heelo, Toto, Tata, and a cropped Hello at the bottom. At the bottom are Google app icons for Phone, Messages, Chrome, and Camera, with a Google search bar at the very bottom. Screenshot from our Android developer, Timo. A screenshot from an Android device showing the new changes for the Todo widget in dark mode - nearly everything is the same from the first image, except now the Shopping List items all have been completed and have strikethrough. Screenshot from our Android developer, Timo.
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Today we share another project from the community for #MentalHealthAwareness month. Earlier this month we shared a forum thread using sunrise effects for alarms. 👉🏻 bsky.app/profile/home...

Here's one for maintaining tasks on a dashboard 👇🏼
A simple graphic created by Clelia Rella, our graphic designer, in light blue colors signifying a common mental health image. There is a shadow person as the focus of the image, with a line drawing of another person pulling out of the back of the shadow person. Line person's head is a jumble inside the shadow person's head. At the bottom left is text that reads: "The world needs all kinds of minds." Dr. Temple Grandinn, Professor and Autism advocate - the Home Assistant logo and name are in the top left.
May 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Home Assistant 2025.5 🎉

Smarter backups with per-location retention, Z-Wave Long Range support, an improved entity picking experience, tons of new voices for Home Assistant Cloud, and the ability to just paste YAML directly into your automations.

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/05...
May 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM