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ESPHome
Firmware with a first official product. The 15 Aug 2026 brief leads on the Starter Kit, announced on the ESPHome blog 12 Aug after an April tease at State of the Open Home.
A snap-apart kit on an ESP32-C6, designed and produced by Apollo Automation, the Open Home Foundation’s second commercial partner. Motion, climate, button, and notify modules. Local firmware, no cloud required. Majority of profit to the Foundation.
Four modules, ribbon cables, a C6 board, and the desktop Device Builder. What it is not: a soldering class, a retailer gadget dump, or a subscription.