Download Home Assistant Core 2021.10.0

Version 2021.10.0 of Home Assistant Core has been released. Home Assistant Core is an open source home automation platform that runs under Python 3. It runs via Hassbian on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a Linux, macOS or Windows computer. It supports detecting devices, such as Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo switches, Mr. Coffee makers, the smart switches from IKEA and the mqtt protocol. In addition, where possible, it can control these devices and apply automation. For more information, please refer to this page and our own Forum. The full release notes are here Here’s the announcement for this release:

2021.10.0: Z-Wave S2 support, Tuya, secure ESPHome and 400 new icons

October! I love this month! For most of you (just like me), it means winter is coming. We all go back inside. An excellent excuse to spent a bit more time on our smart homes, right?

It is also the month of celebrating open source by joining Hacktoberfest† If you make 4 contributions to any open-source project (Home Assistant, for example), you’ll receive a free t-shirt!

For the Home Assistant project, this means a busy month. However, that doesn’t matter. It is always great to see new people contributing! Meanwhile, Home Assistant turned 8 years old already! Wild! And the birthday announcement was a bit wilder (more about that below).

Anyways, about this release: Z-Wave JS is stepping up its game! If you have a Z-Wave network and are not using Z-Wave JS yet… well… it might be time to bite the bullet and go for it. You won’t regret it.

This release also brings the new much-talked-about, Tuya integration supported by Tuya themselves! I’m looking forward to how that evolves!