Lisboa, bora lá! 🇵🇹 Open Home Foundation is heading your way, and we can't wait to finally meet you in person. Come grab a drink with us and swap ideas with…

Our first booth at IFA Berlin was no ordinary trade stand: but we’re no ordinary foundation. Here’s how we brought our principles to the people.

We surveyed 8,616 Home Assistant users about their smart homes – see the anonymized results, what we learned, and how you can explore the data yourself.

Community Day returns on Saturday, November 7, 2026! We learned a lot from last year’s debut event, and have exciting plans to make this one even better.

In this stream, we'll be launching our first official ESPHome hardware product - The ESPHome Starter Kit. Join the team and special guests as they dive deep ...

In this stream, we'll be launching our first official ESPHome hardware product - The ESPHome Starter Kit. Join the team and special guests as they dive deep ...

In this stream, we'll be launching our first official ESPHome hardware product - The ESPHome Starter Kit. Join the team and special guests as they dive deep ...

Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.

Find out how and why we’re implementing analytics on our websites: via open source software with no personal data collection or tracking.

In this stream, we'll be launching our first official ESPHome hardware product - The ESPHome Starter Kit. Join the team and special guests as they dive deep ...

Mark your calendars! From September 4 to 8, 2026, the Open Home Foundation will be exhibiting at IFA Berlin – and you’re invited.

Explore the preview edition of our community-powered smart home device database. We need your input to make this tool as accessible and useful as possible.

Discover how Open Home Foundation projects can help you give your beloved old devices a new lease of life for a more sustainable smart home.

Learn how Home Assistant and the Z-Wave Alliance work together to promote local control, privacy, interoperability, and certified smart home devices through the Works with Home Assistant program.

Most voice assistants listen and respond in a handful of languages. Try to build one for your home that speaks your language, though, and you quickly run into a wall: the training data does not exist, or it is locked behind licences that make it unusable for open source projects.

Find out how we're bringing the versatility and practicality of e-paper to a wider audience by teaming up with our new collaboration partner, OpenDisplay.

Discover how we use human-computer interaction research to help build smart homes that adapt to the people who use them, not the other way round.

From our first peer-reviewed paper to the decisions behind our projects: Open Home Foundation researchers Annika Schulz and Idil Bostan unpack how research shapes everything we do.

We celebrate the people and passion that made this year's State of the Open Home so special: and share the event video so you can see for yourself!

From a new Community department to a public roadmap awaiting your input – and more. Catch up on the event highlights and help shape what we build next.

Join the Open Home Foundation team and guests for the State of the Open Home 2026 livestream. It's our annual event where we celebrate our community, share s...

Join the Open Home Foundation team and guests for the State of the Open Home 2026 livestream. It's our annual event where we celebrate our community, share s...

AI can do great things, but it will never replace our community. Find out about the different ways we're investing in our key strength: people.

Join us in Utrecht on April 8 for State of the Open Home 2026. Your chance to celebrate, connect, and discover what's next - visit our site to learn more!

Join us in Utrecht on April 8 for State of the Open Home 2026. Your chance to celebrate, connect, and discover what's next - visit our site to learn more!

This month we boldy go into the subject of our core innovation: openness, and why our competitors won't copy it. Plus, our merch store is go!

In 2026's first newsletter, we discuss how open source is the path to digital sovereignty, for individuals and nations alike.

Join us in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on April 8 for State of the Open Home 2026. Your chance to celebrate, connect, and discover what's next – visit our site to learn more!