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It’s finally here, one of the most common feature requests for the Home Assistant Android Companion app: you can now configure multiple Home Assistant servers. The app can send sensor updates to all servers and easily mix and match widgets, tiles, and controls for different servers 🎉 Plus, a preview of the Home Assistant app is now available via the Amazon Appstore on Windows 11, which allows you to quickly connect your computer to Home Assistant. There are also other changes that add some polish to the app and improve support for features in the latest Home Assistant releases, so let’s dig into the update! Configure multiple Home Assistant servers Sometimes, one Home Assistant instance is not enough. You like Home Assistant so much that you decide to help someone else get started, there’s a second home in your life, or you regularly visit someplace else where they’re using Home Assistant. Before this update, if you wanted to access more than one server it was a bit of a hassle....

We sat down with Aeotec to discuss how their products work with SmartThings — and how they keep users connected to their homes. Here’s what we learned.  from SmartThings Blog https://blog.smartthings.com/stories/smartthings-partner-spotlight-how-aeotec-keeps-customers-connected/ via IFTTT

We were made aware of a security issue impacting installations using the Home Assistant Supervisor. A fix for this security issue has been rolled out to all affected Home Assistant users via the Supervisor auto-update system and this issue is no longer present. You can verify that you received the update on the Home Assistant About page and verify that you are running Supervisor 2023.03.1 or later. If you do not see a Supervisor version on your About page, you do not use one of the affected installation types and have not been vulnerable. The issue has also been mitigated in Home Assistant 2023.3.0. This version was released on March 1 and has since been installed by 33% of our users . Affected version The security issue affected installation types Home Assistant OS and Home Assistant Supervised. This includes installations running on the Home Assistant Blue and Home Assistant Yellow. The two other installation types, Home Assistant Container (Docker) and Home Assistant Core (ow...

Today we’re excited to announce a Works with Home Assistant partnership with HELTUN! HELTUN’s thermostats, switches, and switch panels integrate with Home Assistant via Z-Wave (Z-Wave stick required) completely locally so that devices react instantly to your commands which allows for the best user experience with Home Assistant. With automatic firmware updates via Home Assistant we will continue to provide the best user experience for their devices. HELTUN is an Armenian-US high-tech hardware company focusing on Z-Wave-based smart home and building automation solutions. The company’s focus is to redefine energy management with smart programmable thermostats and switches, aiming to utilize the most advanced features and functionality on the market. We’re proud to offer this new integration and can’t wait to hear what you’ll build on-top of it. To learn more about HELTUN products, have a look at their website . Learn more about the Works with Home Assistant partner program. f...