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title: "Home Assistant - Project Insights"
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attribution: "Summary by iinventedlight (AI-assisted). Source: Michael, Home Assistant - Project Insights, Datenspuren 2026 (CC BY 4.0)."
date: 2026-10-18
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tags: home automation, dashboard, open source
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    title: "Home Assistant - Project Insights"
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    license: CC BY 4.0
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# Home Assistant - Project Insights

License: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/). Source: https://media.ccc.de/v/ds26-624-home-assistant-project-insights

## Summary
Michael (the name published on the recording page), speaking at Datenspuren on 20 September 2026, presents Home Assistant. The description asks four questions: what Home Assistant is, how the project began, where it stands, and how to take part. It describes Home Assistant as a smart-home system that does not depend on one vendor, and that states the principles "privacy, choice, and sustainability". It calls the project one of the largest open-source projects on GitHub, with about two million active installations worldwide, and says that in 2025 it was still in the top 10 on GitHub despite the boom in AI projects. Those size claims are the description's, not figures this note re-checked. The description does not answer how the project began or how a person joins. The speaker is listed only as Michael. This note follows the description on the recording page. The page lists no speech subtitles, so it does not report what was said on stage beyond that description.

## Why it is here
Askers looking for a home dashboard on their own machine need a system that is not tied to one vendor. This talk's description is a short account of Home Assistant as that kind of local project, and of the principles it says it follows.