This is interesting. Hopefully it does not go "too corporate". Home Assistant started out as a basic python based alternative to Mr. House ages ago. Mr. House was kind of a PITA to setup with that old X10 hardware. Archive(Openhome foundation): https://archive.today/lckQ2 Slashdot Article: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1946245/home-assistant-has-a-new-foundation-goal-to-become-a-consumer-brand Slashdot Archive: https://archive.today/kTBMG From the post: >>Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. The open smart home platform is an open source OS you can run anywhere that aims to connect all your devices together. But it's also bespoke Raspberry Pi hardware, in Yellow and Green. It's entirely free, but it also receives funding through a private cloud services company, Nabu Casa. It contains tiny board project ESPHome and other inter-connected bits. It has wide-ranging voice assistant ambitions, but it doesn't want to be Alexa or Google Assistant. Home Assistant is a lot.