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Onboarding Home Assistant

Getting Started

Alright, you made it here. The tough part is done.

Splitting up the configuration

Docs / Configuration

Alright, so we’ve got the single integrations and the include statements in the base ...

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Integration

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The Home Assistant story

In September 2013, Paulus has an idea for a way to control his Philips Hue Lights...

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First UI - Device Trackers tracking if he is home or not

Just two months later

First UI - Device The UI was getting better

6 months later

First Contributors to Core start popping up

FEB 2015

First UI - Device YAML Files are born!

In 2016

First Conference was spoken about HA

FEB 2017

Pascal Starts Hass.io (Supervisor)

JAN 2018

HassOS was born by Pascal - June the 1st release

In 2016

First Conference was spoken about HA

SEP 2019

Bram, 1st employee, was hired to work on Frontend

SEP 2020

ESPhome was Acquired by Nabu Casa

DEC 2021

The Open Home idea was launched from the idea of Home Assistant and Nabu Casa and Esphome with the State of the Open Home

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2022

Hired the creator of Zwave JS to work full time on zwave JS

16 full-time employees

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Paulus for Nabu Casa

“ Nabu Casa, Inc. commits time and resources into Home Assistant so this will be a shared success story. We want to improve Home Assistant, also for the people that are not customers of Nabu Casa, Inc. ”

Paulus Schoutsen

Founder of Home Assistant