{"id":279081,"date":"2026-06-22T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/home-assistant-os-18-0-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:05:11","slug":"home-assistant-os-18-0-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/home-assistant-os-18-0-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Assistant OS 18.0 is out, and it&#8217;ll stop devouring your RAM on low-end devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/home-assistant-os-180-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices\/\">Home Assistant OS 18.0 is out, and it&#8217;ll stop devouring your RAM on low-end devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/home-assistant-os-180-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/home-assistant-os-180-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 21:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Home Assistant OS 18.0 clamps the default swap to 1-4 GB, improving use on devices with\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Swap grows slightly on\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        It also updates the Linux kernel to 6.18 and speeds up image flashing &#8211; grab the new OS on GitHub.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that we love Home Assistant here at XDA. We&#8217;ve been tinkering with it (and its new AI tool) for a while now, and there&#8217;s no sign of us stopping. One of our favorite uses for Home Assistant is putting it on a low-end system like a Raspberry Pi and performing smart home actions with it. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Home Assistant OS doesn&#8217;t work so great on systems without a lot of RAM; that is, until now. A new update for the OS has added a new setting that better respects a low amount of RAM on your system.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"home-assistant-os-18-0-brings-new-tweaks-for-lower-ram-counts\">\n                        Home Assistant OS 18.0 brings new tweaks for lower RAM counts<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"plus-it-runs-off-a-newer-version-of-the-linux-kernel-now\">\n            Plus, it runs off a newer version of the Linux kernel now<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>As spotted by Linuxiac, Home Assistant OS 18.0 has finally been released. It&#8217;s worth noting that this isn&#8217;t the Home Assistant app getting an update; it&#8217;s the OS that keeps everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/home-assistant-os-180-is-out-and-itll-stop-devouring-your-ram-on-low-end-devices\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Assistant OS 18.0 is out, and it&#8217;ll stop devouring your RAM on low-end devices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/home-assistant-tablet-dashboard-6.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-279081","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\/279081"}],"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=279081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279086,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279081\/revisions\/279086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}