Home Assistant OS can serve as a user-friendly control hub for your smart devices. Here's how to get started. Smart homes make sense. The devices that bring a certain level of automation to your home ...

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Home Assistant OS 18.0 is here to make installations and first-time smart home setups smoother. Raspberry Pi users can now manage bootloader firmware updates more easily, with support expected to ...

Home Assistant’s unofficial app store is going official.

The latest version of Home Assistant OS made its bow last month, bringing a more streamlined setup process. While do-it-yourself smart home platforms like Home Assistant OS and Home Assistant at large ...

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Smart home automation is more versatile than ever with Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi. Check out what they can do.

Performance and security boost.

The Home Assistant 2025.1.4 patch release is here. It follows the wider 2025.1 release, which arrived at the start of the month with an overhauled backup system and several new integrations. This ...

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The Home Assistant 2025.2 software is now available. The February update is the second major release for the open-source home automation software this year. It builds on the refreshed backup system, ...