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The Home Assistant community is actively expanding automation capabilities and integrations, with posts covering Apple Shortcuts-driven notifications and a new wall-panel weather card. At the same time, broader tech ecosystems are probing Home Assistant via Google’s reported Gemini testing and teased hardware, while users emphasize building smarter homes than big tech.

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17 September 2013

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Key Takeaway Home Assistant is seeing rapid capability growth—especially via notifications and new UI cards—while Google’s Gemini testing signals wider platform interest.
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Home Assistant is seeing rapid capability growth—especially via notifications and new UI cards—while Google’s Gemini testing signals wider platform interest.

The Home Assistant community is actively expanding automation capabilities and integrations, with posts covering Apple Shortcuts-driven notifications and a new wall-panel weather card. At the same time, broader tech ecosystems are probing Home Assistant via Google’s reported Gemini testing and teased hardware, while users emphasize building smarter homes than big tech.

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notification method Home Assistant notifications that run Apple Shortcuts
UI feature WeatherWise: a new Home Assistant weather card for wall panels
Gemini testing figure 3.5M users tested Gemini for Home Assistant
Google teaser A Speaker is teased for next week

What to Watch

  • Watch for Google’s “Speaker” reveal next week tied to Gemini for Home Assistant. 9to5Google
  • Follow r/homeassistant for updates as new community cards and notification automations ship.

What Changed

  • Google: 3.5M users have tested the Gemini for Home assistant, Speaker teased for next week 9to5Google
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Bare metal sounds like the best option for anything, really. You wouldn't run your home desktop PC through emulation, would you? The same goes for the smart home with Home Assistant. There's an OS package that runs on just about any hardware that meets the system requirements, and you'll have no trouble hooking up all your smart home devices and other integrations. It all just works. There's no worrying about keeping an underlying OS updated or other software that needs to run in between layers. It's the hardware, Home Assistant OS, and the familiar web UI. For many users of the platform, this

Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
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