October 15, 2024

I’ve stated it earlier than, however House Assistant could be nothing with out its neighborhood. That’s why we determined this 12 months to focus our anniversary celebration on acknowledging and thanking our wonderful neighborhood. It’s becoming as 2024 was the 12 months we added a devoted neighborhood supervisor, Missy Quarry, who hosted this celebration of you in our 11th Anniversary live stream.

Missy co-hosted the stream with creator and House Assistant neighborhood member Andrej Broz, higher generally known as Bearded Tinker. Collectively they threw a barrage of questions at Frenck and myself – we didn’t see any of them forward of time so our responses don’t get any extra actual than that. It was plenty of enjoyable, and there was even slightly announcement slipped in there, so please check it out.

We are able to’t thank our neighborhood sufficient for the previous 11 years. You’re the engine driving ahead House Assistant. You place in your spare time to check, repair, construct, and share your concepts. You fund our work by subscribing to House Assistant Cloud, which permits us to dedicate our full consideration to you, and by no means should reply to a bunch of buyers. We couldn’t do it with out you.

Reside stream

We went over a lot in this live stream, so here are some highlights to help you,

  • (0:00) Compilation of thanks from our code house owners

  • (0:02) Intro from Missy and Bearded Tinker

  • (0:05) What does neighborhood imply to you?

  • (0:13) Beta testing and the way secure is a dot zero launch?

  • (0:18) Conserving the neighborhood heading in the right direction

  • (0:22) The Evolution of the Neighborhood

  • (0:31) Shifting to this point versioning

  • (0:37) Customizability of House Assistant and HACS

  • (0:47) Altering names of issues in House Assistant

  • (0:55) How we started to focus extra on UX and UI

  • (1:03) Shifting the main target away from YAML, whereas preserving it in

  • (1:09) Sensible residence vs automated residence

  • (1:16) The beginnings of beta

  • (1:21) Bringing in a neighborhood supervisor

  • (1:27) Discord adjustments

  • (1:30) What’s subsequent for the neighborhood – House Assistant Day announcement

  • (1:34) What do you wish to see evolve locally?

  • (1:41) How the neighborhood can assist House Assistant

There was a stay Q&A after the stay stream on our Discord utilizing their new Stage operate, however you needed to be there to have loved it, no catching up on that one.