Blog index
2014
Website launched!
Home Control, Automation & the Smart Home
2015
Hello PushBullet, nice talking to you
Bootstrapping your setup with Discovery
Nest in the house!
Release notes for January 24, 2015
Looking at the past
Streaming updates
KS Assistant moving to YAML
New logo for KS Assistant
Release notes for March 11, 2015
Release notes for March 22, 2015
Release notes for April 25, 2015
UTC & Time zone awareness
Release notes for May 14, 2015
Release notes for June 10, 2015
IP Cameras, Arduinos, Kodi and Efergy Energy Monitors now supported
MQTT, Rasperry Pi, Logitech Squeezebox and ASUSWRT routers now supported
Verisure devices and modern TP-Link routers now supported
Laundry Automation: insight and notifications
0.7: Better UI and improved distribution
Using MQTT with KS Assistant
KS Assistant meets IFTTT
Remote Monitoring with Glances
Alarms, Sonos and iTunes now supported
KS Assistant goes geo with OwnTracks
0.7.5: Blinkstick, SNMP, Telegram
Report the temperature with ESP8266 to MQTT
0.7.6: Amazon FireTV, Radiotherm thermostats
0.8: Honeywell Thermostats, Orvibo switches and Z-Wave switches and lights
Survey November 2015
Community Highlights
0.9: Rollershutters, locks, binary sensors and InfluxDB
InfluxDB and Grafana
Activating Tasker tasks from KS Assistant using command line switches
[Update: decision reversed!] Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
Set up encryption using Let's Encrypt
0.10: Amazon Echo, iCloud, Dweet.io, Twitch and templating support!
2016
0.11: Extended support for DIY solutions
Perfect Home Automation
0.12: Insteon, LIFX, Twitter and Zigbee
Smarter SmartThings with MQTT and KS Assistant
Classifying the Internet of Things
0.13: Speedtest.net, Bloomsky, Splunk and Garage Doors
Multi-room audio with Snapcast, Mopidy, and KS Assistant
Community Highlights
0.14: Steam, D-Link smart plugs and Neurio Energy Sensors
0.15: Unforked Open Z-Wave, templated service calls, extended scene support and PEP257 compliance.
0.16: Embedded MQTT broker, Uber, Yamaha receivers and Growl
Your hub should be local and open
Static website
0.17: Onkyo, Panasonic, GTFS and config validation
Updated documentation
To Infinity and Beyond 🚀
0.18: Bluetooth, LG WebOS TVs and Roombas.
iBeacons: Making presence detection work better (part I)
Talk: Automating your home with KS Assistant (OpenIoT Summit)
0.19: Empowering scripts and Alexa
Video: How To Configure KS Assistant
Why we use web components and Polymer
0.20: Roku, Last.fm, AWS, Twilio
Raspberry Pi all-in-one installer
iBeacons: How to track things that can’t track themselves (part II)
Community Highlights
0.21: Improved Web and support for EnOcean, LIRC and Osram Lightify
KS Assistant at PyCon 2016
0.22: Pandora, BT Home Hub 5 and local file camera.
Using USB webcams with KS Assistant
0.23: Envisalink, Homematic, HDMI-CEC and Sony Bravia TV
PocketCHIP running KS Assistant
0.24: SQLAlchemy, KNX, Join by Joaoapps, and SimpliSafe.
Visualize your IoT data
IoT Data Exploration with Jupyter Notebooks
ESP8266 and MicroPython - Part 1
0.25: Custom frontend panels, Jupyter notebooks, DirecTV.
Laundry Sensors with NodeMCU and KS Assistant
Optimizing the KS Assistant mobile web app
0.26: Foursquare, Fast.com, FFMPEG and GPSD
We Have Apps Now
Github-style calendar heatmap of device data
0.27 is here to break eggs and take names: notifications, Hue fakery, safety and unification come to KS Assistant
ESP8266 and MicroPython - Part 2
0.28: Reload automation and groups, API documentation, car tracking, Pi-Hole stats
0.29: 🎈 Async, SleepIQ, OpenALPR, EmonCMS, stocks, and plants
We have a Raspberry Pi image now
Participating in Hacktoberfest
0.30: More Async, HASSbian, Digital Ocean, statistics, REST
0.31: Reading you the news, some serious business, spooky hackery and a breaking Z-Wave change
Explaining the Updater
0.32: Hacktoberfest, InfluxDB sensor, Error reporting, and Weather
0.33: New Calendar component, Wink thermostats and Cisco IOS
0.34: New Remote component, Websockets, Sonarr, GPSLogger
0.35: Text-to-speech, VLC, Flic, netdata
Thank You
2017
Control My Christmas Tree Stats
0.36: ISS, USPS, Image processing, Insteon
Numbers
KS Assistant Governance [updated]
0.37: Face detection, Coffee, Wink
Smart Baby Monitor
HASSbian 1.1 - The Toy-box
0.38: Alert, AppleTV, MQTT discovery, and Yeelight
Workshop at CLT 2017
KS Assistant t-shirts have arrived!
0.39: Configuration panel, state restoration and improved docs
KS Assistant 0.40: Turn any Android phone into an IP Webcam
0.40.2 and broken dependencies
OpenSourceCraft interviews our founder Paulus Schoutsen
KS Assistant 0.41: Tado, Volumio, Workday, improved Plex
HTTP to MQTT bridge
Thomas Krenn award 2017
KS Assistant 0.42: Eddystone Beacons, Lockitron locks and Total Connect alarm systems
1 year and 22 days ago I had an idea...
IKEA Trådfri: Internet of Things done right
KS Assistant 0.43: IKEA Trådfri, Spotify and our iOS app is live
Hardware Contest 2017
Setting up InfluxDB and Grafana using Docker
HASSbian 1.21 - It's about time isn't it
KS Assistant on a Pi Zero W in 30 minutes
Podcast.__init__ interview with Paulus Schoutsen
KS Assistant 0.44: Zigbee, OpenCV and DLib
Grazer Linuxtage 2017: Python Everywhere
KS Assistant on an Orange Pi Zero
KS Assistant at PyCon US 2017
KS Assistant 0.45: Automation editor, Z-Wave panel, OCR
KS Assistant Podcast 1
0.46: Rachio sprinklers, Netgear Arlo cameras and Z-Wave fans
Linux Action Show special about KS Assistant
ZWave Entity IDs
0.47: Python Scripts, Sesame Smart Lock, Gitter, Onvif cameras
[Update: fixed] A frank and serious warning about X
0.48: Snips.ai, Shiftr.io and a massive History query speed up
KS Assistant is moving to Discord
KS Assistant Podcast #3
0.49: Themes 🎨, kiosk mode and Prometheus.io
KS Assistant Podcast #4
Introducing Hass.io
Talk Python interview with Paulus Schoutsen
0.50: Voice control, History improvements, and Xiaomi
KS Assistant Podcast #5
0.51: Massive history speed up, finished automation editor and official vacuum cleaner support
0.52: Scripts editor, Nello.io locks, HipChat and Abode Home Security
0.53: Tesla, Customize editor, and super fast KNX rewrite
Hassbian 1.3 - A bit of a stretch
0.54: Todoist, DoorBird, Abode cameras
Improved Hass.io build system
Effortless encryption with Let's Encrypt and DuckDNS
Participating in Hacktoberfest
KS Assistant Podcast #9
Deprecating Python 3.4 support
0.55: Tibber, DuckDNS, The Things Network, Owntrack
Templates, dates and times
KS Assistant Podcast #10
0.56: Skybell, Google Assistant, Travis CI and Toon
Serial analog sensor
KS Assistant Demo
KS Assistant and SSH
0.57: Translations, Hacktoberfest, Timers
Translating KS Assistant
KS Assistant and The Things Network (TTN)
Secure remote access to KS Assistant using Tor
0.58: More translations, faster frontend, system log
Set up Hass.io on top of a virtual machine
0.59: Order pizza, Entity Picker, Color Wheel
0.60: Beckhoff/TwinCAT, WebDav, Gearbest, iAlarm
Introducing KS Assistant Cloud
Thank You
2018
0.61: Coinbase, Discogs, iGlo, Sochain
Clarification about Emulated Hue
0.62: MyChevy, Iota and Venstar Thermostat
Disabling Disqus comments
0.63: Entity Registry, SQL Sensor, Mercedes cars
Cloud Update
0.64: Over 1000 integrations! New: HomeKit, BMW, August.
0.65: Rename entities, new filter sensor, UpCloud and Channels
Updated release schedule
Using Fedora Atomic with KS Assistant
0.66: VeSync switches, HomematicIP, and a group cover.
KS Assistant 🤝 Ubiquiti Networks
0.67: Mastodon, Tahoma switches, Nanoleaf Aurora Light Panels
Hass.io 2018
Our Google Assistant skill is live!
New developer website
0.68: HomeKit control, Eufy, FritzBox, SigFox sensors
0.69: Matrix Chatbot, PostNL, Social Blade, Xiaomi Mijia sensors
0.70: Facebox, SpaceAPI, Konnected Alarm System
esphomelib - A comprehensive solution for using ESPs with KS Assistant
0.71: Lagute LW-12, Iperf3, Hydrawise, Ryobi Garage Doors
0.72: Lovelace UI, KIWI Doorlocks, Wireless Tags, Insteon X10.
0.73: Preview version new user system, Rachio cloud push and Lovelace goes wild
New Hass.io images, based on HassOS
0.73.2 - Security Incident
0.74: Tuya, Cloudflare DNS, Push Camera and Users UI
0.75: Spider, Tuya, Brunt, Magicseaweed API
0.76: Auth almost done, FleetGo, PJLink, RMV public transport
0.77: Authentication system 👮♂️ + Hangouts bot 🤖
0.78: More auth, Switchmate, Yale Smart Alarm, OpenTherm
Thinking Big
0.79: Device Registry, Logi Circle, Huawei LTE routers, GeoJSON
Participating in Hacktoberfest
0.80: Lovelace updates, webhooks, TRÅDFRI switches
0.81: new Lovelace cards, LG soundbars, Dyson fans, Elk-M1
0.82: TensorFlow, Lovelace UI edit, Z-Wave Barrier Class
State of the Union
0.83: Fibaro Home Center Hubs, locks via voice, Traccar
0.84: Cloud webhooks, Wunderlist and USGS Earth Quakes
[Update: resolved, API reinstated and commitment to keep it around] Logitech Harmony removes local API
Logitech's stance on local APIs
Launched: Data Science Portal
2019
0.85: ESPHome, Plum Lightpad, OpenSenseMap
Lovelace UI released!
0.86: New Lovelace UI and Zigbee Management Panel!
[Update: we are wrong] Nest locks users out of their own data
Introducing KS Assistant CLI aka. hass-cli
0.87: SmartThings, Areas and Entity Registry UI.
hass-cli 0.5: Area, Device Registry and event CLI
0.88: Persons, Command line auth and event subscriptions
0.89: Nissan Leaf, PlayStation 4, Point alarm control, Owlet baby monitor
0.90: Remote UI, Streams, User Groups
When will there be an official KS Assistant for Android app???
0.91: More streaming, better Zigbee, cameras with ESPHome
Introducing Hass.io Ingress
0.92: HEOS, Somfy MyLink, Genius Hub
Update from the Field
[Update: new users only] Nest to turn off their API
0.93: Essent, AmbiClimate, VS Code debugging
0.94: SmartHab, Watson TTS, Azure Event Hub
0.95: AdGuard, Life360, Plaato Airlock
KS Assistant Cast (preview)
0.96: Notion, updated sidebar, advanced mode
Piwheel issues with older versions of Raspbian/Hassbian
KS Assistant Cast
0.97: Apache Kafka, Fortigate, Twente Milieu
0.98: Improved entity management, options and KS Assistant Alerts
Happy 6th Birthday
0.99: Withings, Device Automations, launch KS Assistant Cast from Python.
0.100: Better Plex, Bye JSON, HERE Travel time.
R.I.P Hassbian
0.101: Airly, Apprise, Sinch, Solar-Log, Microsoft Teams
0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor
Almond & Ada: privacy-focused voice assistant
State of the Union 2019: Recap
KS Assistant for everyone
Sonos shutting down local voice option Snips
0.103: Happy Holidays, Service calls, StarLine, GeoNet NZ and Proxmox
HassOS 3 released! Raspberry Pi 4 support
Celebrate the holidays with open standards
2020
0.104: Sentry, Signal Messenger, IntesisHome, Sure Petcare, KEF
KS Assistant Companion for Android 1.5.0
Changing the KS Assistant Brand
Community Highlights, first edition!
0.105: Safe mode, Headers & Footers, New Zones Editor, Garmin, Sighthound
Community Highlights: 2nd edition
KS Assistant Companion for Android 1.6 and 1.7
Community Highlights: 3rd edition
0.106: Light brightness stepping, better Safe Mode and person dialog
Community Highlights: 4th edition
0.106.3: Coronavirus integration (COVID-19), track the outbreak
Community Highlights: 5th edition
0.107: Multiple Lovelace Dashboards, adds helpers, new media player card
0.108: Logos, Area Pages, Lovelace Entity Card, Lovelace Map History
The future of YAML
0.109: New integrations page and weather card, frontend lost weight.
[On hold] Deprecating KS Assistant Supervised on generic Linux
0.110: Speed! OpenZWave beta, HomeKit Cameras, ONVIF, Calendars
KS Assistant Code of Conduct 2.0
Installation Methods & Community Guides Wiki
0.111: Frontend loaded sooner, Elexa Guardian, Unify Circuit, Acmeda
0.112: Making things faster; Logbook & History
0.113: Automations & Scripts, and even more performance!
Migrating the iOS Companion App to Nabu Casa
KS Assistant Companion Apps: New and Upcoming Features
0.114: Dark mode, Open Z-Wave progress and more automation & scripts
The month of 'What the Heck?! (2020)'
KS Assistant Companion Android App: New Features
KS Assistant Companion Android App Release 2.4.0
Happy 7th birthday KS Assistant! 🎉
KS Assistant Tags
The Supervisor joins the party
0.115: B-Day release! Media browser, tags, automations & WTH
One more thing…
Summing-up the month of 'What the heck?!'
Community Highlights: 6th edition
Hacktoberfest 2020
0.116: Entities card row editor, restore snapshots and performance metrics
Supervisor 249: Resolution center, Stability & Private container registries
0.117: Quick Bar, compact header, a YAML editor, XBox and Template types
KS Assistant Companion Android App Release 3.0.0
0.118: Grid and logbook cards, quick navigation, native template types
[Better solution!] TP-Link offers way to add local API back
Community Highlights: 7th edition
KS Assistant OS Release 5
2020.12: Automate with Blueprints!
2021
2021.1: Happy New Year!
Security Bulletin
Disclosure: security vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Dwains Dashboard, Font Awesome and others
Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others
2021.2: Z-Wave... JS!
Community Highlights: 8th edition
Community Highlights: 9th edition
Community Highlights: 10th edition
2021.3: My Oh My
KS Assistant Companion Android App 2021 Q1 Releases
Community Highlights: 11th edition
Community Highlights: 12th edition
Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome
Community Highlights: 13th edition
Community Highlights: 14th edition
Community Highlights: 15th edition
2021.4: For our advanced users ❤️
KS Assistant Companion Android App April 2021 Release
Community Highlights: 16th edition
Community Highlights: 17th edition
Community Highlights: 18th edition
Community Highlights: 19th edition
2021.5: Stability, performance, triggers, color modes!
Community Highlights: 20th edition
Easier notifications in iOS 2021.5
Why KS Assistant doesn't have an external API for integrations
Community Highlights: 21st edition
Community Highlights: 22nd edition
Community Highlights: 23rd edition
2021.6: A little bit of everything
Community Highlights: 24th edition
KS Assistant OS Release 6
Community Highlights: 25th edition
Power-up your ESP8266 and ESP32 projects: browser-based installation and configure Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE
Community Highlights: 26th edition
Community Highlights: 27th edition
2021.7: A new entity, trigger IDs and script debugging
2021.8.0: Feel the energy ⚡️
Energy Management in KS Assistant
Supervisor update
2021.9.0: More energy, USB discovery, template ❤️
KS Assistant Yellow
2021.10.0: Z-Wave S2 support, Tuya, secure ESPHome and 400 new icons
User Experiences and Designers
2021.11: Icon picker, device links and entity categories
100,000 installations in analytics!
New NetDaemon Release: Use C# to automate KS Assistant
2021.12: New configuration menu, the button entity, and gorgeous area cards!
Multi-server support in iOS 2021.12
Android 2021.12: Wear OS Beta!
Demo: Genie, privacy-preserving virtual assistant by Stanford
The Open Home
Energy management research using KS Assistant
2022
Oculus Quest Meet the Smart Home!
Streamlining Experiences
2022.2: Let's start streamlining!
New Add-on for HomeMatic/homematicIP support - Action Required
Android Companion 2022.2: Local Push Notifications!
2022.3: Select and play media
Content Trust with KS Assistant & Codenotary CAS
2022.4: Groups! Groups! Groups!
Buying a device to run KS Assistant (April 2022 edition)
Hey Insteon users!
Introducing the KS Assistant Creator Network!
2022.5: Streamlining settings
2022.5.3: Ukraine Alarm integration, get alerted for attacks by air or artillery
KS Assistant OS Release 8
Matter in KS Assistant workshop announcement
2022.6: Gaining new insights!
2022.7: A stunning performance
Introducing the Works with KS Assistant program
Leviton joins as a Works with KS Assistant partner
2022.8: You can fix it!
2022.9: KS Assistant Birthday Release!
The month of 'What the Heck?!' 2022
Short-term solutions on how to use smart home tech to save energy and money in Europe
2022.10: All over the place
Third Reality joins Works with KS Assistant
Ultraloq joins Works with KS Assistant
Jasco joins Works with KS Assistant
2022.11: A heck of a release!
2022.12: It does matter!
2023: KS Assistant's year of Voice
2023
2023.1: Happy New Year of the voice!
KS Assistant coming for your car!
Want to help others? Leave your AI at the door
Year of the Voice - Chapter 1: Assist
2023.2: How can I Assist?
Matter & Thread: where we’re at
2023.3: Dialogs!
HELTUN joins Works with KS Assistant
Disclosure: Supervisor security vulnerability
Android 2023.3: Multiple servers & Windows 11 app
2023.4: Custom template macros, and many more new entity dialogs!
HomeSeer joins Works with KS Assistant
KS Assistant OS 10: Better memory management and new board support
Year of the Voice - Chapter 2: Let's talk
2023.5: Let's talk!
2023.6: Network storage, favorite light colors, new integrations dashboard
KS Assistant collaborates with KNX
2023.7: Responding services
Year of the Voice - Chapter 3: Ready when you are
2023.8: Translated services, events, and wildcards!
2023.9: New climate entity dialogs, lots of tile features, and template sensors from the UI!
Celebrate 10 years with us
A refreshed logo for KS Assistant!
Introducing KS Assistant Green: Your entry to KS Assistant
10 years KS Assistant
[Update Oct 2: data sharing to become optional] Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
2023.10: New looks and more tile card features!
Year of the Voice - Chapter 4: Wake words
Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
KS Assistant OS 11: Low-latency scheduler and VM snapshot improvements
Expected support for KS Assistant OS on the Raspberry Pi 5
Security audits of KS Assistant
2023.11 To-do: Add release title
Removal of MyQ integration
KS Assistant Green is now available
Nabu Casa at the Matter Member Meeting
2023.12: Welcome home!
HomeWizard joins Works With KS Assistant program
Silicon Labs partners with Nabu Casa to support Open Source
Year of the Voice - Chapter 5
Disabling new login page functionality
Companion app for iOS 2023.12: Let’s go!
2024
2024.1: Happy automating!
The State of Matter livestream
Voice Assistant Contest - Let's build and win some prizes!
The State of Matter
Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here!
2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything!
Nabu Casa joins the Z-Wave Alliance
Voice - Chapter 6 Livestream
On device wake word on ESP32-S3 is here - Voice: Chapter 6
What about Grace? Tune in to our special livestream next week!
Raspberry Pi 5 support and more in KS Assistant OS release 12 & Supervisor update
A Home-Approved Dashboard chapter 1: Drag-and-drop, Sections view, and a new grid system design!
2024.3: Drag 'n Drop it like it's hot! 🎉
And the winners of our voice assistant community contest are 🥁 ...
2024.4: Organize all the things!
Thinking Bigger: State of the Open Home 2024
2024.5: Just a little bit smaller
Z-Wave is not dead
Music Assistant 2.0: Your Music, Your Players
Companion app for iOS 2024.5: Let me Assist you 🍎
2024.6: Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs 🤖
AI agents for the smart home
A roadmap for KS Assistant
Roadmap 2024 Midyear Update: A home-approved smart home, peace of mind, and more!
KS Assistant SkyConnect becomes Connect ZBT-1
Voice Chapter 7 - Supercharged wake words and timers
2024.7: Time to resize your cards!
Dashboard chapter 2: Let’s redesign the cards together!
Streamlining the KS Assistant Yellow lineup
2024.8: Beautiful badges!
Works with KS Assistant becomes part of the Open Home Foundation
HACS 2.0 - The best way to share community-made projects just got better
Aqara joins Works with KS Assistant
2024.9: Sections go BIG
Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18
KS Assistant is 11 years old!
We are joining the Z-Wave Alliance Board
2024.10: Heading in the right direction
KS Assistant Connect ZBT-1 issue and replacement
Help us make voice better in under a minute
2024.11: Slick dashboards and speedy cameras
Roadmap 2024 Year-end Update: Full steam ahead!
Event wrap-up - GitHub Universe '24
KS Assistant Yellow gets CM5 support in HAOS 14
The month of 'What the Heck?!' 2024
2024.12: Scene you in 2025! 🎄
Understanding Our Community: The 2024 KS Assistant Survey
Voice Chapter 8 - Assist in the home today
The era of open voice assistants has arrived
2025
2025.1: Backing Up into 2025!
3…2…1… Backup
2025.2: Iterating on backups
Speech-to-Phrase brings voice home - Voice chapter 9
Apollo joins the Works With KS Assistant Program
Music Assistant's next big hit
2025.3: View those headers!
KS Assistant officially Matters