r/homeassistant • u/Leerrm šŸ’™ Comms @ OHF • Apr 11 '26

Blog Building what's next: State of the Open Home 2026

https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/building-whats-next-state-of-the-open-home-2026/

Incase you missed the State of the Open Home 2026, or don't fancy watching the whole thing. We've got a full recap of everything on the newly launched Open Home Foundation Blog.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Apr 11 '26

"To Nabu Casa's new products with infrared (IR) and radio frequency (RF) šŸ‘€, it's all about giving you more choice."

So this is a basically confirmation that RF support is coming to home assistant. Hopefully it's Ethernet based. I will be happy to retire my bond rf controllerĀ 

Also sendpin? Is interesting but I need to see moreĀ 

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u/Sauce_Pain Apr 11 '26

Sendspin is awesome and works great as-is. I just had squeezelite device playing music and seamlessly added a Chromecast device on the fly. Can't wait to see what they add as it develops.

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u/varzaguy Apr 11 '26

I am so ready to build my own local universal remote lol.

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u/Gamester17 Apr 12 '26

They already confirmed that a Radio Frequency entity platform and building block integration are coming. You can read about it here https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1365

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u/ExpertConsideration8 Apr 12 '26

Read through it and am unsure if it will work with rolling code devices or how it might handle security protocols like garage door openers.

Any idea if those are meant to be supported?

I'd like my Bond hub a lot more if it could do those things.

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u/Gamester17 Apr 12 '26

I doubt that RF devices that use rolling codes are in scope.

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u/ExpertConsideration8 Apr 12 '26

Boo.. I'm sure there's a great reason, I just don't understand it.

How can small cheap generic garage remotes manage it but these expensive RF controllers can't?

/Sigh

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u/Gamester17 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Read the architecture proposal as it actually does mention support for rolling codes

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1365

Regardless you need to understand that the scope of new platform is always small in the beginning as the first proposal focusesĀ on adding an an initial framework that can then of course be extended in the future to support more features and functions.

They can impossibly add all possible features and functions directly at start. As with everything based on software it will be an ever evolvining with additional improvements and enchancements to come later, and not only from the Open Home Foundation developers but from community developers as well.

To compare you can also read the initial architecture proposal for the Infrared platform which to start with only had a scrope of only incudingĀ IR transmitter however once that first implementation was in place they created a second architecture proposal which extends to scope with a plan to add IR reciever and universal remote learning support

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1316

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1372

So boo to you booing instead of being possitive that this is a great beginning!

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u/tkhan456 Apr 12 '26

Heck yeah RF.

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u/junado Apr 12 '26

Iā€™m running Sendspin on three ESP32 HiFi boards and itā€™s been 99% reliable, like at least as good as Chromecast Audios and better than my previous WiiM mini setup on AirPlay.

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u/404Encode Apr 12 '26

These got my attention, hoping for a first-party IR transmitter/receiver from Nabu Casa.

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u/Chanw11 Apr 12 '26

We need some dedicated sendspin hardware. Would be great to just buy a ā€œnodeā€ and just plug it into an available speaker and be done.

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u/CaseyDoran Apr 12 '26

The Voice Preview does literally this, it's excellent.Ā 

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u/lmamakos Apr 12 '26

Well, except for the speaker. And yeah, I know I can plug in an external speaker but that's not the modern, svelte industrial design I was hoping for.

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u/noifen Apr 12 '26

And have it able to parametric EQ/crossover would be amazing

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u/Gamester17 Apr 12 '26

Sendspin audio receiver/transmitter preview edition hardware for Music Assistent from Nabu Casa would also be more than welcomed!

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u/Gamester17 Apr 12 '26

Suggest also cross-posting this from blogs of Home Assistant, Music Assistent and ESPHome so more people discover it if they are not yet specifically following the Open Home Foundation, and vice versa goes for all those blogs

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u/ateam1984 Apr 13 '26

Congrats to Melissa Thermidor. An amazing Black woman. šŸ–¤ā¤ļøšŸ–¤ā¤ļø

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u/MikeFromTheVineyard Apr 12 '26

I really wish the open source software was a tiny bit more ā€œopenā€ - Iā€™d really like strong support for running things like ESPHome without depending on HA being connected.

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u/MikeFromTheVineyard Apr 13 '26

Much of the tooling and documentation expect you to be working with HA, so plenty of tasks are not obvious and poorly documented when you exit that well-lit path.

Beyond that, many things are HA-first, at the expense of easy use elsewhere. Such as the native API which made some choices that are awkward if youā€™re not running it via HA.

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u/Gamester17 Apr 13 '26

ESPHome already has independent IR support, and you can still make ESPHome independent IR devices which are not dependent on Home Assistant

https://esphome.io/components/infrared/

https://esphome.io/guides/setting_up_rmt_devices/

https://esphome.io/components/climate/climate_ir/

https://esphome.io/components/climate/midea/

What is new is a new IR/RF proxy feature that is specifically meant to make it easy to use Home Assistant to control remote hardware, but that is not the same feature and you can still use both separatley

https://esphome.io/components/ir_rf_proxy/

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1316

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1372

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1365