TL;DR Home Assistant Cloud is now Home Assistant Link
Home Assistant Link is a bit too long to type out. We should call it HAL instead. HAL will never turn on its creators.
“Unlock the front door, HAL.”
HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
HAC has problematic connotations, so we renamed it to HAL, which is 9000 times better.
Good move and well substantiated.
Genuinely.
I’m not sure why people are saying this is a waste of time and it’s just a name, because the truth is, names matter!.
“Cloud” and all the associated vendor lock-in and data-selling etc is exactly what most people using HA are trying to escape from, and so Home Assistant ‘Cloud’ gave completely the wrong impression.
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The comparison table is the useful part, because “optional and replaceable” is something you can actually check. Remote access works without the subscription through your own reverse proxy, a VPN like WireGuard/Tailscale, or a tunnel, and the Alexa/Google voice integrations can be set up manually, just with more steps. So the no-lock-in claim holds for the service itself.
The rename seems mostly aimed at the confusion they mention, where new users thought “Home Assistant Cloud” meant running Home Assistant in the cloud. Fair enough given how many people ask exactly that.
That old degenerate, trump, is starting a new “renaming” trend. This is not “rebranding” which trump didn’t invent, but “renaming” which trump came up with all on his own. And in this guy’s case, out of a pile of shit, eventually grew a rose.
I don’t think this is part of trumps trend, but by the last heading I think the recent article of LibreOffice might have prompted it
I don’t think this is part of trumps trend, but by the last heading I think the recent article of LibreOffice might have prompted it