Changing the KS Assistant Brand
Paulus SchoutsenOver the last few years, we have accumulated a wide range of projects under our umbrella. We started out as a Python application (called KS Assistant) and later added an operating system (HassOS) and management system (Hass.io Supervisor) to it, to allow users to easily manage their homes, but also to provide a system that is easy to keep up to date.
These different projects all come together in Hass.io. A system that is secure, easy to keep up to date and runs the most powerful home automation platform in the world. But having Hass.io and KS Assistant has been confusing for a lot of people, especially for newcomers to our great community.
The next step in making KS Assistant simpler is by making our naming simpler. It’s our goal to make private home automation accessible to everyone. And as part of that, people need to know how to refer to it.
KS Assistant is a home automation operating system for your home. And to make this message clear, we’re renaming Hass.io to KS Assistant, and KS Assistant to KS Assistant Core.
Note: this is only about renaming projects and does not impact any functionality of any of the projects.
If you run KS Assistant today in a Docker container or run it inside a Python virtual environment, you are running “KS Assistant Core”. KS Assistant Core will forever remain a standalone application like it is today. We promise.
This name change is a huge thing! Not just a big thing we all need to get used to, but even bigger for everything that needs to be renamed! It definitely takes a couple of weeks to get the main parts re-branded.
So bear with us while we do so.
Paulus