do they know how much smart home people spent on philips hue stuff alone? i don't think they'll find this all that much for running AI at home (although i do find it too expensive for now and would rather just don't run locally)

The future of smart homes is 100% clear:

One day, sensors (Pushbuttons, Presence, Thermostats, etc) will be digitally wired, so they can be feature rich, reliable and never need a battery change.

For better maintenance, scale and thermal reasons, actuators should no longer be put into the wall outlet, but into a central cabinet. That‘s also clear.

That will require a world wide standard for wired smart home
components, idealley one, that can be deployed cheaper and more flexible than Ethernet, where you can simply daisy chain the devices and don‘t need to worry about security.

Finally, the components should be intelligent enough to even work when Home Assistant or whatever server you use is down. An while we are at it, they should work with multiple servers at the same time, so that you can control the hoise with a combination of HomeAssistant, ioBroker and maybe even some commercial solutions.

Oh, hang on. This already exists. It is called KNX and for some reason is totally ignored by the retrofit-consumer nerds, even though it is hands down the best solution for new builds and rewires.

Quite simply, if you have not played around with KNX, you should not consider yourself a smart home insider…

If you are a KNX Pro, then you can even make a hotel, a train station or an office park „smart“. (Building Automation is the term there)

So there is your career path…

So what's with this emphasis on zwave? Is home assistant just trying to keep all bases covered? It's an indication that thread isn't the be all end all I guess

If it’s truly local and private, I’ll consider it.

Local, private, open source. Yep, everything checks out.

I’m just starting my Home Assistant journey but even though the learning curve is steep the benefits are clear and the effort and thought going into it’s continued development is inspiring. Keep up the great work everyone!!! 😃

When will HA come to cars? So, you can monitor and protect your car the way we monitor and protect our home?

Yeah, they definitely need to overhaul Lovelace dashboard when it comes to theming. More settings (like card transparency or tap to open a stack that pops up a room or entity grouping) via UI rather than editing the theme.yaml or getting specialty entities/cards from HACS. Also? Significantly easier way to change wallpapers via UI too!

Question as I am looking for a new smart home system for my new house build. I have been told home assistant or homey pro. Thoughts as you’re a big smart home guy. Just want to use my HomePods still.

Generative algorithms are not the same as AI. Why don't people understand that? It's not hard.

Home Assistant is not that hard! I don't understand why people think it is? And I'm not a developer, programmer, or some guru.

Home Assistant is the present AND future, as long as the leadership don't F it up and try to monetize the platform instead of continuing to follow the open source ethos. Sure, make it simpler for the "common" user but it's already at a point where virtually anyone can stand it up and do the basics. It's not a stretch that someone interested in home automation wuld also be intelligent enough to learn how to tap into the power of HA.

Can you please send me your link to your other channel

I'm not the first to say this by any means, but if I were on the Home Assistant product team, I would be working on onboarding/migration tools. In other words, how to make it easier to switch to HA. I have to believe one of, if not the biggest obstacles to adoption is customers that don't want to rebuild their set up in a new environment. If I could just copy over my set up from any other platform, I would switch.

hope the ai stuff run on my RTX3090 on Virtualmaschienes

Home Assistant is part of the future for smart homes but not THE future (in whatever role it plays) in my opinion. As a person who has used multiple smart-home platforms, I prefer Home Assistant, but there will always be a market for other options. EG, as you know from being a Smartthings user previously, is great for beginners, people who don't understand tech or don't want too much from their smart home, while others I know prefer Smart Life / Tuya for their cost-effective yet diverse ecosystem of products.

Just set up my home assistant server up this morning! 🙌

-Privacy and local control also offers ownership/sovereignty of your data. Corporate clouds taking your data for free centralises a multi-billion dollar revenue; homes before corporations.
-There are new and better business models than legacy/outdated ones today, where home users choosing to approve selling their data are paid 80%, corporations make 20% and advertisers who pay for this data receive much more accurate demographics and information.

2 grand for an AI module? Nope.

The general public continue to confuse "breaks" in the platform (it doesn't work!) blaming Home Assistant itself, rather than proprietary home automation companies who try lock down their APIs. They are the villains here. Not the HA platform itself. So if the Nabu Casa team wants it to scale (and I hope they do!) I think the team should market the platform a bit better. Explaining how it works and why it sometimes breaks (it's not Home Assistants fault! ) Explain why keeping it end user focused and open source is so important to it's future growth.

I would never buy anything from NVIDIA again given their links to the genocide in Gaza. It is a pity that such an evil company has such a stranglehold on AI. In general I would consider a home AI, although not at that price. It’s a lot different that a £35 Raspberry Pi even after you add a power supply and an SSD. But it’s irrelevant anyway as NVIDIA AI is used to kill civilians in Gaza.

If I could get an AI that I control locally but can query online resources to get answers (I control what comes in and goes out), I would drop Alexa in a hot second. Integrate that tech with Home Assistant and I don't think the competition stands a chance.

I have been interested in home assistant for some time, but only just got a Green hub this week. Bro, I will NEVER recommend smartthings or anything else to anyone again. HA is brilliant. It's so fast since everything runs locally, and setting everything up was so much easier than even in google Home. My google home duplicates everything so i have double the amount of devices in my Home than there really are.

Not to mention the flexibility of the software. You can do SO MUCH even without addons, etc. You can tell it's built by people that just want to have a good system that THEY can use.

Absolutely it's the future as long as it remains open source and end user focused. I'd pay even a bit more for my Nabu Casa subscription, if it improves in the way you say – but here is the thing. As long the end user model doesn't change. Do NOT mess with that! NEVER sell out to a Dealer focused automation company. That would destroy it! I swapped to HA from Control4 a fews years ago because it was locked down to a dealer only supply/instal/service and upgrade model – which drove me crazy. You even had to get them out to do a firmware upgrade! Once I ditched Control4, I've never looked back. I'd also buy a genuine Nabu Casa HA Touchscreen, say with built in local HA voice control. (Echo equivalent). If they would ever make one. So I hope in the future a few more in house (ready to go out of the box) hardware devices are released to the market for us to purchase. A more powerful (than a Ras Pi) PC/SSD based server with built in HA software, ready to go out the box, would be a huge hit for new users I'd reckon. HA is awesome. Thanks for the great video and the opportunity to provide feedback. Hopefully all the useful comments from users in the chat are read by the team at Nabu Casa. And kudos to the founder. He deserves massive praise for launching this fantastic platform. I hope he makes a fortune from it – but please Paulus if you read my comments- NEVER SELL OUT to a Home Automation dealer instal (focused) company. Home Assistant MUST remain end home user focused. Cheers!