[$] Home Assistant: ten years of privacy-focused home automation

Many home-automation devices come with their own mobile app or cloud
service. However, using multiple apps or services is
inconvenient, so it's (purposely) tempting to only buy devices from the same
vendor, but this can lead to lock-in. One project that lets
users manage home-automation devices from various vendors without lock-in
is Home Assistant. Over its
ten-year existence, it has developed into a user-friendly home-automation
platform that caters to both technically inclined and less tech-savvy
people.