Anonymous and open to all: The Home Assistant survey dataset：这条智能产品动态，国内用户更该关注生态兼容和实际体验

据Home Assistant Blog报道，Anonymous and open to all: The Home Assistant survey dataset。表面看这像是一条单点更新消息，但背后更值得关注的是平台能力、设备协同和用户体验会不会一起变化。

Our why as an organization is clear: to fight for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes, and for every person who lives in one. But who does live in them?

In December 2024, we launched the first Home Assistant survey to find out. Our goal was simple: to make Home Assistant more inclusive and approachable by listening directly to the diverse community of people who use it.

In the spirit of building in the open, today we’re thrilled to announce the anonymized results of that survey are now freely available. In this post, we’ll run you through what the survey covered, why and how we’re publishing this data, what the data is not (read: identifiable), how we’re using this information to improve what we do, and opportunities for further understanding and research.

To give a little context, the survey ran for about seven weeks, closing in early February 2025, and gathered 8,616 submissions – offering meaningful insights into Home Assistant users and the day-to-day realities of running the platform. Most respondents said an interest in technology drove them to create a smart home, often prompted by moving into a new house, or a renovation. Only around a third started their smart home with Home Assistant itself, with the rest arriving from other platforms. Perhaps unsurprisingly, among those who chose Home Assistant, the most commonly selected reasons were local control (89.3%), its open source nature (84.0%), and powerful customization (81.7%).

Beyond how people got started, we wanted a fuller picture of who they are and how they live. The typical user in the study ran a substantial setup, managing anywhere between 11 and 200 devices, and most people (75%) did so in a home they owned, and often across two or more floors. Over half of the households surveyed had a resident cat or dog, and a quarter of respondents spoke more than one language at home.

We also asked about professional background and neurodivergence, since understanding the range of expertise and needs within the community shapes how we communicate and design: 78.3% of primary users worked or studied in technology or engineering, and 15.7% identified as neurodivergent, compared with 68.1% who identified as neurotypical, and 12.3% who were unsure.

放到国内市场看，判断这类新闻值不值得重视，关键要看三件事：会不会影响主流品牌生态走向、会不会改变设备联动门槛，以及会不会对真实使用体验带来可感知变化。

注：本文基于公开资料整理改写，信息来源于 Home Assistant Blog