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The Open Home Foundation has announced
its existence as a home and support resource for free home-automation
projects.

We created the Open Home Foundation to fight for the fundamental
principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart
homes. And every person who lives in one.

Ahead of today, we’ve transferred over 240 projects, standards,
drivers, and libraries—Home Assistant, ESPHome, Zigpy, Piper,
Improv Wi-Fi, Wyoming, and so many more—to the Open Home
Foundation. This is all about looking into the future. We’ve done
this to create a bulwark against surveillance capitalism, the risk
of buyout, and open-source projects becoming abandonware. To an
extent, this protection extends even against our future selves—so
that smart home users can continue to benefit for years, if not
decades. No matter what comes.