Notices by Home Assistant (homeassistant@fosstodon.org)

Last week, during the Voice Chapter 9 live stream, we introduced a big advancement in open voice control: Speech-to-Phrase!

Learn more about how we’re making local speech processing lightweight in our latest blog post: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/02/13/voice-chapter-9-speech-to-phrase/

It's #DataPrivacyDay2025! 🔐 A core value of ours is Privacy, we believe it's important that you - and only you - control your data. Here's how we help:

💾 We're local-first - it's your data not the cloud's
📊 Analytics are opt-in - we only see what you share
👀 https://analytics.home-assistant.io/

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Stop ✋🏻 what you're doing and take 5 minutes to use Home Assistant's new automatic backup tool to set up offsite and encrypted backups to keep your smart home running securely and smoothly.

Learn how with our latest blog post 👇🏼

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https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/01/03/3-2-1-backup/

Back up into 2025 with Home Assistant 2025.1! 🥂

A complete backup system overhaul—automated, encrypted, and extendable by integrations. Home Assistant Cloud backups, retention policies, and more! Plus, tons of Month of ‘What the Heck?!’ fixes, new integrations, and features. 🚀

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/01/03/release-20251/

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https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/01/03/release-20251/

It's here! 🎉

We're very excited to share with you the future of open voice, the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition! This has been 2 years in the making - we look forward to taking you on this journey with us. 😌

Find more details here: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

Catch up on the news in our blog here: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/19/voice-preview-edition-the-era-of-open-voice/

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With Raspberry Pi announcing their Compute Module 5 today, we're pleased to confirm that it's supported in our Home Assistant Yellow! This gives a great boost to its upgradability and long-term sustainability. 🌍

Read more 👇🏼
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/27/home-assistant-yellow-gets-cm5-support/

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https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11/27/home-assistant-yellow-gets-cm5-support/

Actions speak louder than words. Check out today’s stream to see how we’re taking action.

Introducing the @openhomefoundation - a new non-profit we just launched.
🛡️ To fight for the principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
⚖️ To tilt the balance back towards users and protect against open-source becoming abandonware.
🫱🏻🫲🏽 To collab with critical external projects like Z-Wave JS, WLED, Rhasspy, and Zigbee2MQTT.

Read on about what this means:
https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-home-foundation/

Are you passionate about user research? Do you want to join a team that is shaping the future of our homes? We're looking for a Senior User Experience Researcher to join our Product and Design team! Take a look:

https://remote.com/jobs/nabu-casa-home-assistant-c1meh63e/senior-ux-researcher-j1jgjd4v

Now it's even easier to use the M5Stack ATOM Echo as a voice assistant: new Echos being sold will have our voice assistant firmware pre-installed!

For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

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