{"id":217338,"date":"2026-02-25T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:45:31","slug":"this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"This KDE add-on brought Home Assistant controls to my Linux desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/\">This KDE add-on brought Home Assistant controls to my Linux desktop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 12:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home Assistant is fantastic on its own, but with one open-source project and about 10 minutes, you can bring the convenience of the Home Assistant app right to your Linux desktop.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-does-home-assistant-do\">\n                        What does Home Assistant do?<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>Home Assistant is a popular self-hosted solution for smart home enthusiasts that are looking for a privacy-focused way to manage their smart appliances.<\/p>\n<p>Home Assistant can control:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Lights\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Smart switches\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Automatic blinds\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Door locks\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Thermostats\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And plenty of other more niche devices, like a Litter Robot. It can also take sensor input from any number of smart devices, like thermometers, air quality sensors, photosensors, and almost anything else you can think of.<\/p>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Aqara<\/p>\n<p> It even allows you to build automations that trigger smart devices in your home based on input from the sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it is also pretty easy to run. You can easily control dozens of devices with a Raspberry Pi 4 or an old PC you rescued from a dumpster.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"smart-homes-ignore-pcs-plasma-home-assistant-fixes-that\">\n                       &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This KDE add-on brought Home Assistant controls to my Linux desktop https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3d-isometric-logos-of-kde-and-home-assistant-side-by-side-on-a-blue-background-with-white-gears.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-217338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217340,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217338\/revisions\/217340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}