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The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
  • The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
  • Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.
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[–] [email protected] 136 points 6 months ago (26 children)

Is HA not already the mainstream option for privacy and user control? Maybe I just live in a bubble, but it seems like it's already the go-to if you care about those things.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (8 children)

For technical people... Yes.

For people who aren't that technical? No.

Don't get me wrong, the Home Assistant Green and SkyConnect dongle is great and massively makes maintenance for the regular joe easier (no pis or other hardware that loads from the SD/hardware considerations).

But some stuff in UX would have to improve, which it already is doing ofcourse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As a technical person working in tech, I’ve heard of home assistant but only ever spoken to one or maybe two people that have actually tried it. It doesn’t seem that mainstream. Meanwhile, every smartphone has a proprietary assistant built in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The assistant in your phone is not the same as home assistant.

Home assistant is mostly used to group all your smart home stuff and create automations.

Being a technical person myself, most people I know want to try it but don't have the use for it due to living in appartments.

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