“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.

The shutdown of June Oven is another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep.

The fiercely open-source smart home platform had its first-ever booth at IFA this week and, true to form, didn’t pull any punches. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/IMG_9498.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/IMG_9494.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/IMG_9488.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all]

The ESPHome Starter Kit is the easiest path to building your own smart home devices, with no soldering or coding experience needed.

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 ...

Context Fixes #839. pulses_to_data and data_to_pulses share a tick constant of 32.84, but protocol.md documents the conversion as us * 269 / 8192 ticks, with worked examples that only that exact fo...

You can install God mode in Home Assistant in under 10 minutes, and it changes everything. Open code is finally here and you NEED to check this out. Plain ...

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Matter support in Home Assistant just got faster, more stable, and more capable than ever 🎉. See what's changed and why it's a big deal for your smart home.

Patch the Planet is our joint initiative with OpenAI to assist critical open-source software in the age of machine-speed vulnerability research.

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.

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.

Pull up a chair, because the foundation's 2025 Annual Report is here and packed with a year's worth of growth, milestones, and building with our community.

A fast, correct YAML library for Python, written in Rust.

Join the Music Assistant team and community guests for the Music Assistant 2.9 release!Release notes: https://www.music-assistant.io/blog/2026/06/10/music-as...

Why should you care about privacy and security? Learn how smart devices collect your data, what companies owe consumers, and how your choices can push brands to prioritize privacy and protection.

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.

📚 Chapters00:00:00 - Welcome00:02:30 - Imi’s smart home origin00:05:00 - Lights first, then sensors00:07:30 - Heating logic in Node-RED00:10:00 - Room prese...

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.

PyCon US 2026

We are looking for The Open Home Foundation is looking for a Community Associate based in Europe to join our Community Department. This is the job for someone who lives and breathes community. Someo...

New Yorkers are tech savvy, but even the most diligent can’t always tell when their smart devices stop getting security updates...