Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours

We’ve renamed Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Here’s why the old name never did fit, and why this one finally does.

Friday, October 02, 2026Carl AlbertssonCarl Albertsson

From ever-increasing subscription prices to outages and data harvesting: we don’t like what the cloud has come to represent. So we’re redefining what an online service should be: private, optional, and free from lock-in or walled gardens.

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