We recently held our State of the Open Home 2024 live stream, where we revealed how we are thinking even bigger about securing the future of the smart home. During this stream we launched the Open Home Foundation, a new non-profit organization created to fight for the fundamental principles of the smart home — privacy, choice, and sustainability — focused on serving everyone that lives in one. To learn more about the Open Home Foundation read the full announcement.
The stream includes a deep dive into the evolution of Home Assistant and how it has now reached an estimated 1 million installations. There were other substantial updates on voice and hardware, including teasing our upcoming Z-Wave and voice assistant hardware. The first panel discussion featured the founders of Open Home Foundation collaborating projects WLED, Zigbee2MQTT, Rhasspy, and Z-Wave JS. A second panel gave a comprehensive overview of the state of open standards, featuring key open-source developers working on Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, and Bluetooth. The stream caps off with a look into the future of the open home, including the announcement of a roadmap full of exciting new features.
The Open Home Foundation now owns and governs over 240 open-source projects, standards, drivers, and libraries, including Home Assistant - protecting these projects from buy-out or becoming abandoned. To learn more about the Open Home Foundation, visit: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/
I watched the whole stream, thanks for all the good work!
I’m a bit curious about the choice you explained that the AI hardware should be separate from the hardware on which home assistant runs.
The AI hardware would not be so cheap as you point out. So I would want to make use of it as much as I can, by not only having it run e.g an LLM but also have it run home assistant together with the frigate add-on etc. which will also run very fast on such powerful hardware.
So hopefully you could explain a bit why it should be separated rather than leaving us the choice.
Yes not in the same area of operation at all. I know of the NZ Foundation because I am a NZer and I work in an adjacent profession. It comes up pretty near the top of a Google search, but maybe because I am in NZ.
Still, is it not a bad idea to keep using CLA (Contribution Licence Agreement) Is not really in the spirit of free AND open source software?
Can the choose licence no be inherited from the project without forcing a CLA to be signed?
So maybe consider changing it so that do not have have to sign a CLA when contributing code but still require use same licence(s) as the existing project, would that not be more in the spirit of free AND open source software?
At least developers will refrain to contribute if have to sign any CLA, check out these references:
I meant the HA blog post linked in the message you quoted. CLA is there since 7 years ago, if it was going to stop contributors from contributing, HA would not be what it is. And CLA in HA does not mention Nabu Casa, contributors are not giving copyrights to a commercial company.
looking at the video, i totally see why nabu-casa-cloud is so expensive … studio costs for bs and all that … good job … another reason to not pay you guys for this
“thinking bigger” … yeah … take $30 per month for subscription
What a beautiful and productive contribution to the forum.
Kind of in line with many other equally useful rant posts.
Why not just switch to one of the other great free systems out there… ?
Could you not hop into threads over half a year old to comment on something irrelevant to the topic, please? I’d rather not have to give an official warning for being rude, that requires paperwork.
maybe not pin it visually popular on website i’m just astonished about that studio … btw. i think there is still place for another screen on the floor, don’t you think?
but go on guys …
btw $30 was hypothetically because of “thinking bigger” and already unrealistic pricing… but no problem. let the fanboys make the price points and don’t wonder why only they’re paying for it
