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Great news for Home Assistant users who’s preferred way of coding is C#: NetDaemon has just released a new version of their open source platform that allows you to use C# 10 for .Net 6 to write your applications or automations for Home Assistant. This release includes a new API called HassModel which makes it easier than ever to interact with Home Assistant from .Net. It generates strong typed interfaces based on the entities in your own Home Assistant instance, their attributes and all available services and their parameters. Intellisense can be used to discover all your entities and available services directly from your IDE. Check out the documentation and how to get started with NetDaemon This project is not affiliated with Home Assistant, but leverages our open API . from Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/11/27/netdaemon-release/ via IFTTT

Today we have reached a major milestone for Home Assistant Analytics : 100,000 users have opted in to be included! This is a big deal because it’s not enabled by default, users have to opt-in, and we only launched Home Assistant Analytics last April. We promoted it in the release blog post and during live streams, but have never nagged existing users in the interface. New users did get asked to opt-in as part of onboarding. The 100,000 installations are not the total number of Home Assistant users. The truth here is that we don’t know the total number of installations because Home Assistant is private by design. Our estimate is that there are 4-5x more installations than people that opt-in to analytics. For the latest version of the graphs in this post, visit Home Assistant Analytics Why we collect data It’s good to start off with why we allow users to opt-in to share some data with us. Manufacturers of IoT products live in their own world in which we have little presence. We d...

In an effort to provide our users with more eco-friendly home solutions, SmartThings is expanding its SmartThings Energy platform with new features that will allow users to make greener decisions.... from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/roundups/discover-even-more-eco-friendly-home-solutions-with-smartthings-energy/ via IFTTT

Point eleven ( .11 ), which means it is November! 🥶 (or 🏖 depending on where you are in this world, of course.) It also means: This is the second last release of the year… Hacktoberfest is over! In the month October, people contribute to projects (like Home Assistant) to celebrate open source. I’ve seen lots of new faces and new contributors this month. To those I want to say: Welcome! Thanks for contributing your free spare time; Thanks for being a hero! ❤️ And, there is more! Something that isn’t really visible. In the background, an army of contributors are improving a tremendous amount of Home Assistant code, which improves stability, readability, and maintainability of our project’s codebase. As a matter of fact, because of this incredible work, counted by the number of contributions, this release might just as well be one of the biggest ever. Work, you generally don’t notice, but is still done. Weird huh? Another group of heroes! ❤️ For me personally, this has been a crazy...