Plans for Home Assistant Cloud

Development
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I saw some discussion on Discord, and [https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/cloud/init.py#L1](some code) hints at a Home Assistant Cloud solution. Is there any official information or discussion about the plans for this?

Personally, I would be happy to contribute a bit, but I hope the project stays open-source and free for the current usage scenarios. Support for Google Assistant, SSL, push notifications and so on would be very nice to be able to buy.

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They’ll probably do what openhab did. It’s basically just a service you can run on your own server if you want to that makes a persistent connection to the internal HA service. That’s what the code indicates anyway. I can’t imagine it’s not open source but it would be smart of them to offer a paid service where they are hosting everything for you since a lot of people probably don’t want to deal with that.

As is it looks like it handles normal HA commands and alexa

@asyncio.coroutine
def async_handle_message(hass, cloud, handler_name, payload):
    """Handle incoming IoT message."""
    handler = HANDLERS.get(handler_name)

    if handler is None:
        raise UnknownHandler()

    return (yield from handler(hass, cloud, payload))


@HANDLERS.register('alexa')
@asyncio.coroutine
def async_handle_alexa(hass, cloud, payload):
    """Handle an incoming IoT message for Alexa."""
    return (yield from smart_home.async_handle_message(hass,
                                                       cloud.alexa_config,
                                                       payload))
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I agree, but I would like to hear more about the strategy for the future.