• Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
  • The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
  • Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.
  • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Thanks for volunteering to build a new integration for HA! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

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      6 months ago

      Some have tried working on this. Authentik even developed a hack to make it work with HomeAssistant. Unfortunately the core devs of HomeAssistant have historically viewed external auth as a niche feature that users don’t care about.[1] Not sure if that is still the case, but until that mentality changes we are stuck with native auth because PRs are just going to get denied.

      I think this post pretty much sums it up:

      In 2024, Home Assistant sticks out like a sore thumb among FOSS projects for its lack of modern authentication and authorization.


      1. https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/issues/832#issuecomment-1328052330 ↩︎