Open Home Foundation

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

We have several new job openings! 🥳 Do any of these sound like a fit? We'd love to hear from you - apply today! 👇🏼 🔹 Node.js Engineer 🔹 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 🔹 E-Commerce Operations Manager 🔹 Digital Marketing Manager 🔹 Market Researcher jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefounda…

📣 WE'RE ALSO HIRING a Talent Acquisition & HR Specialist for the Back-Office team! Are you located in Europe & have: ✅ Recruited technical & non-technical roles? ✅ Worked w/ remote teams? ✅ Sourcing techniques beyond LinkedIn? Apply today! 👇🏼 jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefounda…

📣 WE'RE HIRING a Node.js Engineer for the Ecosystem team to help us build the device database we're working on. Are you: ✅ Based in Europe? ✅ Experienced in Typescript? ✅ A contributor to open source projects? We'd love to hear from you! Apply here👇🏼 jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefounda…

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! 🙌🏻

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

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

Works with Home Assistant news! 📰 Since the @openhomefndn 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

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

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! 😌

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

We're super excited about Music Assistant and HACS being donated to the @openhomefndn! 👏🥳 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. 👏🏻

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. 🙌🏻

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…