# The Future of Home Assistant

URL: /show/self-hosted/45/
> Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more.

- Show: [Self-Hosted](/show/self-hosted/)
- Episode: 45
- Date: 2021-05-21
- Hosts: alex, chris
- Guests: paulus
- Duration: 00:38:20
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7296e34a-2697-479a-adfb-ad32329dd0b0/85e48e06-353f-48fb-8cbf-446b98251f7b.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/aUL3Ms17I_M



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### Episode Links

  * [No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQbOtUmITv8 "No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - YouTube") — Chris' YouTube interview with Paulus in 2017.
  * [Home Assistant Blue!](https://www.home-assistant.io/blue/ "Home Assistant Blue!") — Hardware that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home Assistant
  * [ESPHome 1.17](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/#esphome-117 "ESPHome 1.17")
  * [Upgrade to Lit 2.0](https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/05/19/lit-2.0/ "Upgrade to Lit 2.0")
  * [ESPHome on Twitter @esphome_](https://twitter.com/esphome_ "ESPHome on Twitter @esphome_") — ESPHome is the easiest way to use ESP8266/ESP32 via simple configuration files and control them remotely via home automation systems like @home_assistant.
  * [Nabu Casa on Twitter @NabuCasa](https://twitter.com/NabuCasa "Nabu Casa on Twitter @NabuCasa") — The missing cloud piece for @home_assistant, by the founder of Home Assistant. Control your Home Assistant from anywhere. Fully encrypted.
  * [Nabu Casa](https://www.nabucasa.com/ "Nabu Casa")