State-of-the-Union-2019: summary

On November 13, 2019, 150 Home Assistant community members gathered at ING in Amsterdam for the Home Assistant’s State of the Union in 2019.

this evening, Paulus Schoutsen (founder’s Home Assistant), and Pascal Vizeli (founder of hate.io) presented what Home Assistant is up to, why we do what we do and what we are planning.

Video of the event is embedded below (it starts at 7:12):

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Thanks

the state of the Union, would not have been possible without the time and energy of the following persons:

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ING for hosting us again, free to play game.

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Erik-Jan Riemer’s for the organization – Rockstar ⭐love it.

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Frenck for the management of the stream

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Arjan Vroege for the support of the team

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Notices

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We are #10 open-source project in the world

GitHub released their state of the Octoverse, listing Home wizard as the tenth and largest project in the last year, based on the number of contributors.

This is particularly impressive, because all other things are connected to the list, or administered by, billion-dollar company.

Top 10 of the largest open-source projects.

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Home Assistant to the world-free to play game.

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Improved scenes

In the Home-Assistant 0.102 we start a new scene-editor. We also add two scene services scene.apply and scene.create. First so that you can
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iOS-app

@robbiet480 has presented the new and updated iOS app in the app store and will be available soon.

the Source code

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Android-app

We have a new Android app! Download it here. It is developed by @CedrickFlocon and we can see already, jump to that a ton of other contributors. Awesome!!!

the Source code

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OAuth2 account Linking

We have made it easier to use in the Home Assistant for the integrations OAuth2 associate-account. This is from the Home Assistant 0.102. Somfy is the first partner to use it.

It works with a small cloud service, provided by Home Assistant Cloud. It is free to all users, no cloud account required.

Check the updated documentation for developers if you want to add OAuth2 account linking to an integration.

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Together with almonds: privacy-preserving virtual assistant

We have, together with the Stanford Open Virtual Assistant laboratory to almond home Assistant users. Almond has been modernized with a Home-Assistant-integration, and users can now almond to talk about the Lovelace-UI.

standalone that can run, than hate.io add-on, or a version in the cloud will be hosted by Stanford University.

Brief description of the almond.

For more information, read the announcement in the blog.

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Ada, the voice assistant will be powered by Home Assistant

We have introduced a new project called Ada. Ada is a voice assistant that to store the processing of the speech-to-text (new!), Conversation and text-to-speech integrations in the Home Assistant. You can choose your own provider for each integration.

you can use standalone or as hatred.io add-on.

For more information, read the announcement in the blog.

Source code.

Overview of the architecture of Ada.

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Voice for Home-Assistant Cloud

the Nabu Casa has a new beta service offering speech-to-text and text-to-speech services home Assistant Cloud subscribers, powered by Azure Cognitive performance. This will make it easy to get started with Ada or use it to send voice messages to the speaker in your house.

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Z-Wave

We are working with the Open Z-Wave developer on a new solution, which will allow us the Migration to the new, Open-Z-Wave-1.6 relase and make it easier to stay up-to-date in the future.

to start

We expect to MVP soon. This effort is driven by @cgarwood.

the Source code

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Frenck the accession of Nabu Casa

Frenck be joining the Nabu is-Casa as the fourth employee works full-time at Home Assistant.

“If I could describe my dream job, it would be a full-time open-source developers that can Help make the world a better place, by my time & knowledge & Innovation, open source software solutions. So that everyone can enjoy on this earth for the privilege, these things for you free of charge.” – Franck Nijhof (Frenck) on frenck.dev

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Create automations with your voice

We have been able to almond the neural network to the allow users to generate automation with natural language. This means that you can now automation, by told home Assitant to “turn off the light when I get home”, and we convert it to the corresponding automation in the Home Assistant.

Source code.

Screenshot create automation dialog box.

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Released on Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:41:02 +0000

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