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Not everyone might know, but last year we started the Open Home Foundation as a non-profit in …

… Not everyone might know, but last year we started the Open Home Foundation as a non-profit in Switzerland and I donated Home Assistant to it[1]. It's fully funded by users. There are no investors involved. We are fully committed to building out a smart home that focuses on local control and privacy. Yes there are rough edges, but we're actively working on it in the open, with progress being released every month. ~Paulus, Founder Home Assistant & President Open Home Foundation https://github.com/balloob [1]: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-...

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Is it possible to donate to your foundation via some kind of a subscription? I have a Nabu Casa subscription, but I don't really need it.

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> I donated Home Assistant to it[1]. It's fully funded by users. There are no investors involved. I cannot thank you enough for this. It was a bit risky adopting Home Assistant for everything ~two years ago, but that you guys did this move really makes me feel less scared about eventually having to replace it with something else. I'm subscribed to Home Assistant Cloud (via Nabu Casa) even though I don't use it just because it seems to be one of the few ways to financially support you, is there any way of doing one time donations to the foundation itself?

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smart homes dont work because wifi doesnt work. almost every user is running low quality hardware or does not deploy a meshing AP to reach the devices. the devices are not resilient to lost packets and high latency just change a wifi ssid with smart devices in a home and watch it all crumble. users want nothing more than to get rid of “smart” once they realize its not smart enough to figure out how to change wifi networks. endless “updates”, rent seeking, breaking changes, account setup - its not worth it.

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Do you plan to fix https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/18549 ?

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