Home Assistant comes with its own quality mark to guarantee better support – Image and sound – News

But I think it’s for that right now. Devices that do not function well with ZHA will not receive that quality mark either. Zigbee2MQTT has little to do with Home Assistant because it is an application that translates Zigbee to MQTT (to put it simply). The HA team doesn’t seem to do much development there since it’s not their project.

I think this is a good path they are taking with this. I often see something nice just at the Action or the Lidl, but I never dared to take it without first making sure that it would work. But if it has such a cable, there is a much higher chance that I will make an impulse purchase (because according to the label it will certainly work with Home Assistant).

The only thing I’m a bit wary of is that the now open Home Assistant will be closed(er) in the future and become more commercial. With current developments, the chance of a future takeover is of course increasing.

I sincerely hope then that the vision of Home Assistant does not change as many companies claim to do the same for them. From a financial standpoint, of course, I’ll understand if something like this happens, but I hope for the best. I have been using it for years now and imho it is the only real good Home Automation software out there (in combination with Node Red it is even better).

–