Open Home Foundation

As the year winds down with the last newsletter of 2025, there are still some surprises in store! 🎄 We're thrilled to chat with our new commercial partner Apollo Automation about joining us – plus we welcome Z-Wave JS & microWakeWord to the foundation. 🎉 Read more 👇🏻 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #Newsletter #HomeAssistant

Building the Open Home

Meet our new commercial partner: Apollo Automation

We chat to Apollo Automation about why they've joined us as our second partner. Plus we talk toilets, and why things seem to be getting worse.

We believe Matter is changing the trajectory of the smart home industry for the better – which is why we're thrilled the developer of matter.js has donated it to the Open Home Foundation! Discover how we plan to take an active role in shaping the future of this standard 👇🏼 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #Newsletter

Building the Open Home

Giving matter.js a new home

The open source project matter.js has been donated to the foundation, which will help supercharge Matter Server development.

Today, we’re taking a vital step that fulfills our founding promise to play a more vocal role in public discourse around the open home. Read about why we’re tackling the issue of privacy head-on in an official position paper - the first in a series on our fundamental principles.👇🏼

Building the Open Home

Drawing the line on privacy

We announce the release of our official position paper on privacy. We also talk GitHub Octoverse, home robots, and companies with principles.

In the latest newsletter, we lay out the guidelines to ensure we don't get lost chasing AI for tech's sake when integrating it into what we build. With AI, we want our users to be in full control. See what those guidelines are, upcoming meetups, & more 👇🏼 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #Newsletter

Building the Open Home

AI is optional, privacy isn't

Celebrating its 12th anniversary and a new $50,000 donation from DuckDuckGo, the Open Home Foundation introduces its principles for keeping AI user...

Are there too many smart home standards out there? In this month's newsletter, we peek into why there isn't one standard that fits all. Check out the pros and cons of the biggest standards, and why we built our latest Z-Wave hardware, along with much more 👇🏼 #Newsletter #SmartHome

Building the Open Home

Why isn't there one standard?

We explore why supporting multiple open smart home standards is better than having just one, highlighting the launch of the new Connect ZWA-2.

Worried your cloud-controlled smart devices could be ruined by the manufacturer? You should be. Our latest newsletter covers the recent cloud disasters from three companies, and why local control is the only safe path forward for your smart home 👇🏼 #Newsletter #SmartHome #HomeAutomation

Building the Open Home

You don’t own it if they can break it

This newsletter covers the recent cloud disasters from three companies, and why local control is the only safe path forward for your smart home.

June was an especially energizing month - we came together in person for the first Open Home Foundation Summit in Dublin. 🤩 This month's newsletter covers highlights from the summit, stats from Community Day, new voice features, Apple following our lead, and more! Read on 👇🏼 #Newsletter #HomeAutomation #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

Building the Open Home

Getting out of the home

This month’s newsletter covers highlights from our Summit, community day stats, new voice features, Apple following our lead, and more.

We have several new job openings! 🥳 Do any of these sound like a fit? We'd love to hear from you - apply today! 👇🏼 🔹 Node.js Engineer 🔹 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 🔹 E-Commerce Operations Manager 🔹 Digital Marketing Manager 🔹 Market Researcher

Open Home Foundation Jobs

Open Home Foundation Jobs

📣 WE'RE ALSO HIRING a Talent Acquisition & HR Specialist for the Back-Office team! Are you located in Europe & have: ✅ Recruited technical & non-technical roles? ✅ Worked w/ remote teams? ✅ Sourcing techniques beyond LinkedIn? Tell us more, apply today! 👇🏼

Jobs

📣 WE'RE HIRING a Node.js Engineer under the Ecosystem department - this person will help us build the device database we're working on. Are you: ✅ Based in Europe? ✅ Experienced in Typescript? ✅ A contributor to open source projects? We'd love to hear more from you! Apply here 👇🏼

Jobs