With a new ownership structure, Home Assistant is making its next big move
  • 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.
  • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m totally cool with that. Even as a more technically-minded user, I see a lot of things that could be way more streamlined.

    • jimerson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I totally agree! They’ve come a long way, but making it easier to use can only help grow support for the project.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah I’m not using it yet, partly because I’m not at the home server level of Linux competency, but I do want to move towards it at some point

      • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        If you want to skip ahead, there are also a few ways to get Home Assistant running that don’t need any level of Linux competency:

        • They sell their own devices that are more or less plug & play.
        • Installing Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry Pi is just flashing the image onto an SD card.
        • Installing Home Assistant OS onto a dedicated device involves shortly booting into Linux from USB to flash Home Assistant OS onto the internal disk.

        If you don’t want to run Home Assistant OS, and instead want to run Home Assistant as one of several applications running on a Server, that’s when you need to start getting comfortable administrating a Linux server.