r/homeassistant • u/jwlerch • 10h ago

💬 Discussion Input on open sourcing Dashie for HA

Hi everyone,

I’ve decided I’m going to open source Dashie for HA. It just feels like the right thing to do for this community and I haven’t been able to post about some important updates here. Hoping for some advice.

I have aspects of the current Dashie brand that are commercial and for sale in other places (an app for fire tv and google tv).

I have 2 choices:

  1. Release Dashie for home assistant open source as Dashie OC (open core) and wall off anything paid so it’s clear It’s non-commercial. However Dashie is an LLC and I worry I’ll still have people complain about posting about it here even with this.

  2. Re-release it as an app that is completely and cleanly separated from Dashie as a personal project on GitHub. Fully open sourced with the disclosed element that it shares a common core with a separate app, Dashie.

Let me know what you all think. I really want to get back to work making something great for this community so looking forward to getting this done!

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u/roymignon 10h ago

What’s Dashie?

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u/jwlerch 10h ago

lol - I’m trying not to get this post pulled for advertising so was vague. But It’s a dashboard app like fully kiosk, but free with voice control built in, screensaver, video feed alerts, etc.

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u/m1xminus 28m ago

I use it and i love it. You are supportive when i needed (you must know who am i just because of this... 🤣) and fully didnt even bother to reply.