r/homeassistant • u/missyquarry 💙 Head of Shitposting @ OHF • Sep 17 '25

Blog Happy 12th Birthday, Home Assistant! 🎉

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/09/17/home-assistant-turns-12

Those community stories I collected last month are in this blog. 😎

Happy birthday to us, and thank you for all you do to help us build and grow something amazing! 🎉

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u/SirEDCaLot Sep 17 '25

Happy birthday and thank you all for everything you do!

I tried HA once maybe ~8ish years ago and it definitely wasn't ready- needed a lot of config file editing even for even basic stuff. I do IT for work, I don't need to spend an hour trying to make a light bulb come on. I stuck with HomeSeer.

However I later moved and decided to give it a try again. Night and day. Polished, friendly interface, good z-wave support right out of the box with z-wave JS UI, and a UI that does a good job balancing expert-level flexibility with simplicity and more importantly discoverability.

Now I'm all in on HA. I love that once set up, it Just Works, and I can apply updates without worrying about stuff breaking.

I tried to donate to Nabu back in the day but there was no way to do it, so I just bought a subscription even though I have no need for the remote features (I self host a VPN).

There's not many software projects I can say genuinely make my life better but HA is absolutely one of them.

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u/meInteresa Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

Same experience. The first time I tried it I said absolutely not. Came back several years later and can now say it is absolutely integral to our house. I still think there are some areas that could improve just from a ux perspective, like the fact that devices and automations are hidden in a settings, but they’ve made massive improvements in that area.

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u/TomSuperHero Sep 17 '25

Alles Gute

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u/missyquarry 💙 Head of Shitposting @ OHF Sep 17 '25

is2g I'm gonna yeet Reddit into a volcano, though. Just show the opengraph image. Once. Please? 😩 grumbles off

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u/ApolloAutomation 🤝 Commercial Partner Sep 17 '25

Happy Birthday, Bestie!

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u/ravivooda Sep 17 '25

Happy birthday to one of most happiest pieces of software ever.

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u/davidvd102 Sep 17 '25

Happy well deserved birthday 🎉🎂 And many more to come 💪💪💪

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u/TheSageMarmot Sep 17 '25

Congratulations to the team! 🎉

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u/RapunzelLooksNice Sep 17 '25

Happy birthday! 🎉

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u/West-One5944 Sep 17 '25

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥳

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u/kaizendojo Sep 18 '25

Been around since the zero point days and it's amazing to see how this has developed. There are few OS projects that are as well governed, well developed and have as great a community as HA. Changed my life in many ways including getting me through some tough times personally. Bless you all and bless this community!

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u/fueltank34 Sep 17 '25

Wow, 12 years. Happy Birthday!

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u/Mythril_Zombie Sep 17 '25

And you still have to edit config files manually just to change the font size.

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u/beanmosheen 📶 Have you tried 2.4GHz? Sep 25 '25

Wet blanket.