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Home Assistant momentum is driven by new integrations and hardware/software expansions, from energy monitoring and connectivity use-cases to community projects and control-panel setups. People are also discussing Google’s push for Gemini with Home Assistant and broader device compatibility like the Facebook Portal.

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Key Takeaway Expect Home Assistant to keep expanding via device integrations and DIY/automation upgrades, with Google Gemini testing emerging as a major accessibility and capability signal.
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Expect Home Assistant to keep expanding via device integrations and DIY/automation upgrades, with Google Gemini testing emerging as a major accessibility and capability signal.

Home Assistant momentum is driven by new integrations and hardware/software expansions, from energy monitoring and connectivity use-cases to community projects and control-panel setups. People are also discussing Google’s push for Gemini with Home Assistant and broader device compatibility like the Facebook Portal.

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Top 1 signals · Expect Home Assistant to keep expanding via device
9to5Google · 3d ago
Google: 3.5M users have tested the Gemini for Home assistant, Speaker teased for next week

Broader Home Assistant coverage

Other Home Assistant activity — not part of the “Expect Home Assistant to keep expanding via device” story
r/homeassistant · 2h ago
Zero Feed-in with FRITZ! Smart Energy 250 and Anker Solix in Home Assistant
XDA-Developers · 11h ago
I revived a cheap Android tablet by turning it into a Home Assistant control panel

Briefing Findings · Expect Home Assistant to keep expanding via device

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Gemini test scale 3.5M users have tested Gemini for Home assistant.
Google teaser A speaker is teased for next week.

What to Watch

  • Watch for the next-week Google speaker tease tied to Gemini for Home Assistant. 9to5Google

What Changed

  • Google: 3.5M users have tested the Gemini for Home assistant, Speaker teased for next week 9to5Google
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Broader Home Assistant coverage · not part of the Expect Home Assistant to keep expanding via device story
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xda-developers.com

Home Assistant users are building smarter homes than Google and Amazon ever will

This is what you get when the smart home is decoupled from commercial interests

2d ago Joe Rice-Jones
xda-developers.com

I revived a cheap Android tablet by turning it into a Home Assistant control panel

Your old Android tablet is a better Home Assistant panel than anything you can buy

11h ago Ayush Pande
xda-developers.com

Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it

With the right apps and integrations, Home Assistant is an absolute powerhouse for tinkering enthusiasts

2d ago Ayush Pande

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r/homeassistant Community · 4 articles

Tracking: Zero Feed-in with FRITZ! Smart Energy 250 and Anker Solix in Home Assistant / ESP8266 GeekMagic Custom Firmware (Home Assistant, Clock, Weather, Stocks, ...)

Zero Feed-in with FRITZ! Smart Energy 250 and Anker Solix in Home Assistant ESP8266 GeekMagic Custom Firmware (Home Assistant, Clock, Weather, Stocks, ...)
+2 more The Facebook Portal devices are getting unlocked, and they'll be perfect for Home Assistant Sensereo joins Works with Home Assistant

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Hacker News · u/Vibecoder_ · 

Show HN: Assist Debug Card for Home Assistant

Hi all, I'm playing round with Assist, testing different LLM's, tools, etc. What i was missing from HA is a card which shows the past conversations, including processing times and such.After a bit of experimenting i got …

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Common questions on Home Assistant, surfaced from across the indexed web.

Why use anything else?

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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