We're Matter certified!! 🎉 We've been ahead of the game with Matter implementation, and we're excited to announce both Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation Matter Server are officially certified by the CSA. 😌 What does this mean for you? Find out on our blog below👇🏼

This is your 8 day notice ‼️ We'll be live - April 12th - for the State of the Open Home 2025! 👏🏻 You don't want to miss this - hit the 🔔 on the live event below to be reminded when we go live next Saturday. youtube.com/live/o4Vctz1_K…

‼️ It's your 24 hour reminder - State of the Open Home 2025 is *tomorrow*!! This is your final reminder, so be sure to hit that 🔔 to get notified when we go live @ 18:00 GMT / 20:00 CEST / 14:00 EDT! youtube.com/live/o4Vctz1_K…

AND WE'RE LIVE 👏🏻 Join us over on YouTube for the State of the Open Home 2025 ⬇️ Have a question for the presenters? Drop it in a reply 👇🏼, leave a comment in the chat, or hop into the dedicated Discord channel for #SOTOH2025 ➡️ discord.com/channels/33094… youtube.com/live/o4Vctz1_K…

HUGE news from #SOTOH2025 - employees have moved from Nabu Casa to the OpenHomeFoundation! 🥳 How will this impact you? It won't! This means that instead of Nabu Casa dedicating employee time to the OHF, it gives the foundation money to let it decide what it wants to do. 🙌🏻

Donation news!! 📰 What's happened in the 1st year of the Open Home Foundation? ✔️ Donations from Espressif and DuckDuckGo to support our efforts 💸 Donations to aiohttp, Buildroot, & Alpine Linux Thanks to everyone who supports us! 🙏🏻 #SOTOH2025

We're super excited about Music Assistant and HACS being donated to the Open Home Foundation! 👏🥳 Both of these projects are incredibly important to the open home ecosystem - Music Assistant is key in your music experience in HA and HACS expands its capabilities. 👏🏻

Community news! 📰 We've grown to TWO MILLION INSTALLATIONS in a single year 😱 2024's Month of WTH was so popular it broke our forums 🥔 Backups were quickly improved based on community feedback ⏪ We cannot build Home Assistant without our community. ✨ #SOTOH2025

HOME ASSISTANT COMMUNITY DAY IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED!! 🎉 #SOTOH2025 Save the date for Saturday, May 24th. 🗓️ Missy will have more information on where to sign up and how to host later this month! 😌

Research news! 📰 We had an ASTOUNDING 8,616 participants in the Community Survey 😳 89% of you started a smart home due to interest in tech 👩🏼‍🔧 67% of you have between 11-100 devices in your house 🤩 78% of you live with partners 👫 Thanks for sharing your voice!! #SOTOH2025

Works with Home Assistant news! 📰 Since the Open Home Foundation was created, there are 16 companies lined up to join the program! 🎉 Big names such as Aqara & Motionblinds were recently announced. Stay tuned for new partnerships! 👀 Check out the new site! 👇🏼 works-with.home-assistant.io

Voice news! 🗣️ #SOTOH2025 Actually, it's a demo from JLo. Check out how the announce and conversation features work with an LLM 👇🏼

Roadmap news! 📰 We want to build the best smart home platform for you that embraces the open home principles and is powered by you. We're also investing in building better device context and a device database! 👏🏻 We'll have more to share in a future blog post. 😌 #SOTOH2025

AND THAT'S A WRAP 👏🏻 Check out the #SOTOH2025 hashtag for the news from this year's event. Stay tuned for more news from us on the roadmap, community survey, and Community Day - we'll have blogs for them all! 🙌🏻