State of the Open Home 2026 in 2.5 minutes!
Loved meeting new users and catching up with familiar faces, including people I worked with on contributions. Proud to share what we are building and where we are going as a community.
Also got a new profile photo after years.
youtu.be/TTsSRewv9ag
Open Home Foundation stickers
Ik zie nog een plekje voor een van deze stickers 😉
An image as part of a carousel of images. The image features a light blue to purple gradient, with various geometric shapes in the background. A few of these shapes have been replaced with images, cropped to the same shape. The images feature photographs of the speakers during the event. This graphic's text reads "Let's hear it for our speakers!" In the bottom left if the logo for the "State of the open home 2026". In the bottom right is the logo for the Open Home Foundation.
An image as part of a carousel of images. The image features a light blue to purple gradient, with various geometric shapes in the background. A few of these shapes have been replaced with images, cropped to the same shape. The images feature photographs of the speakers during the event. This graphic's text reads "Building in the open with Labs and Sendspin" In the bottom left if the logo for the "State of the open home 2026". In the bottom right is the logo for the Open Home Foundation.
An image as part of a carousel of images. The image features a light blue to purple gradient, with various geometric shapes in the background. A few of these shapes have been replaced with images, cropped to the same shape. The images feature photographs of the speakers during the event. This graphic's text reads "And with partners from Apollo Automation and Nabu Casa" In the bottom left if the logo for the "State of the open home 2026". In the bottom right is the logo for the Open Home Foundation.
An image as part of a carousel of images. The image features a light blue to purple gradient, with various geometric shapes in the background. A few of these shapes have been replaced with images, cropped to the same shape. The images feature photographs of the speakers during the event. This graphic's text reads "Sharing our plans with the roadmap" In the bottom left if the logo for the "State of the open home 2026". In the bottom right is the logo for the Open Home Foundation.
Let's hear it for our speakers! 🎤
The team covered how we're building in the open, what's next from our commercial partners, and a new roadmap that you can shape!
Thank you for joining us at State of the Open Home 2026. 🎉
#SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant #ESPHome #MusicAssistant
Thrilled to be on stage today to share our ideas on building in the open 🚀
Ai, that is not the experience we want. Wat kind of setup do you have? Do you have a backup? 🤞
Do you like to party? Music Assistant is launching party mode 🎉🎉🎉
Release tomorrow @ www.youtube.com/@musicassist...
Held!
For you lucky people joining us in Utrecht, NL 🇳🇱 for State of the Open Home 2026, we've just released our program! 🗓️
If you don't have your ticket yet, a few are still available.
sotoh.openhomefoundation.org
#SOTOH26 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
Ooh yes. You always need a wake word.
Screenshot of Home Assistant automation editor
You actually can with sentence triggers
Still a bit surreal..
I’ll be speaking at the SOTOH26! At freaking TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht!
Very excited to talk about the plans of the Open Home Foundation and how we as a community can make a real change.
See you there, or follow it live on the streams.
Hooked my desk bike up to
@home-assistant.io so now the office light gets brighter the harder I cycle.
It’s basically an old school bike dynamo and makes me feel like a hamster.
Currently being judged in lumens. 🚴💡
We've been talking about it for forever, but now the wait is over: the @openhomefoundation.org merch store is here! 🥳
It's a great way to support our mission and show what you stand for with high-quality swag. 👕 Read on to learn what else is in store 👇🏼
#SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant
Beautiful!!
Also had a really fun day today. I created a bunch of frontend PRs with help of Claude. Feels amazing to design directly on the live product.
Before and after of the matter icon in a circle
Made an important pull request today for @home-assistant.io 🙂
The Matter icon felt a bit off center because of the gravity effect. I moved it 1px higher and now it feels centered. Small change but it makes a difference.
Before > After
Imagine knowing how a device will actually perform in your home before you buy it 💡 We're building a database to make that happen!
Read our blog to find out how you can contribute 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation
I genuinely like iCloud: it’s easy to use, family photo sharing is great, and it keeps my local disks nice and clean.
I just want a setup where I’m not relying on it as the only place my data lives.
Curious how others here balance cloud convenience with local backups?
Experiment time 🧪
Just bought a NAS to experiment with local backups of my iCloud photos and documents. First test: Parachute Backup to pull everything down. So far, so good!
Next experiment on the list: trying @immichapp.bsky.social for photo management 📸
Let’s see how far this setup can go.
If you can't see the channel, make sure you set the correct role in `Channels & Roles`
🎨 Calling all @home-assistant.io designers!
We just launched a new Discord channel for hanging out and talking all things design.
Come join us and help make Home Assistant even better.
discord.gg/7FcRFq575z
We shared the date for State of the Open Home '26 - today we reveal a little more 👀
Join us - in person or online - in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on April 8. You read that right, in person! Tickets coming early February.
Read on for more on what you can expect this year 👇🏼
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome
So your neighbor knows when you are in your bathroom 😅
I quite like it so far. Not sure if it’s worth the price over two PIR sensors in the same room.
Btw, I’ve put the Matter code sticker inside the device.
Nothing untrue here...
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!
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
#SmartHome #HomeAutomation
Slim! Mijn UX hoofd gaat altijd helemaal stuk als ik die “hoe klaag ik” boodschap voorbij zie komen.
Why is that? What kind of YAML are you using?
It is! 🔥
What would you focus on?
