Trivia
This page contains only irrelevant and unhelpful information about Home Assistant. If you are going to prepare a talk about Home Assistant, perhaps some information mentioned here can be used for the intro.
Name
Isn’t it obvious? Home Assistant is the good soul that is assisting you in your home. It’s common to refer to Home Assistant simply as HA or hass (not to be confused with the German word “Hass”, it’s more like the abbreviation of Home Assistant Server Service). hass is also the name of the command-line part.
Website
The website https://www.home-assistant.io was launched on December 18, 2014 and contains documentation about the setup process, the platforms and integrations, and for the developers.
Logo
The current logo was created by Jeremy Geltman. Further details can be found in the announcement.
License
Home Assistant is open source software and available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Hardware
- End of 2020, Home Assistant Blue was launched. The first dedicated smart home hub for Home Assistant. This limited edition is based on an ODROID and known for its blue aluminum case.
- In September 2021, Home Assistant Yellow was launched. This extendable smart home hub is a custom, open-source design powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Home Assistant Yellow supports both Zigbee and Thread.
- End of 2022, Home Assistant SkyConnect was launched: a USB dongle that provides Zigbee and Thread network support for hubs that do not have this built-in.
Numbers
This sections just contains some random numbers of the Home Assistant eco-system. Sorry, only the main repository counts.
| Description | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forum posts | 352 | 33004 | 172k | 2.5M |
| Forum topics | 83 | 4863 | 22k | 205k |
| Forum members | 92 | 3931 | 17k | 193k |
| GitHub stars | 2519 | 5239 | 12k | 62k |
| GitHub forks | 374 | 1424 | 3.5k | 24k |
| Page views ha.io | 600k | 6.6M | 23M |
Commits per year
The numbers below only covers the main git repository and doesn’t take the helpers (home-assistant.io, frontend, etc.) into account.
2013: 147
2014: 328
2015: 2963
2016: 4299
2017: 3917
2022: 9991
More details and statistics can be found on GitHub.
First commit
The first commit in git was made on Sep 17, 2013 by Paulus Schoutsen.
commit d55e4d53cccc9123d03f45c53441e7cbfc58e515
Author: Paulus Schoutsen <[email protected]>
Initial commit