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title: "Trivia"
description: "Home Assistant Trivia"
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---

This page contains only irrelevant and unhelpful information about Home Assistant. If you are going to prepare a talk about Home Assistant, perhaps some information mentioned here can be used for the intro.

## Name

Isn't it obvious? Home Assistant is the good soul that is assisting you in your home. It's common to refer to Home Assistant simply as HA or `hass` (not to be confused with the German word "Hass", it's more like the abbreviation of **H**ome **A**ssistant **S**erver **S**ervice). [`hass`](/docs/tools/hass/) is also the name of the command-line part.

## Website

The website [https://www.home-assistant.io](/) was launched on December 18, 2014 and contains documentation about the setup process, the platforms and integrations, and for the developers.

## Logo

The current logo was created by [Jeremy Geltman](https://jeremygeltman.com/). Further details can be found in the [announcement](/blog/2015/03/08/new-logo/).

## License

Home Assistant is open source software and available under the [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) license.

## Hardware

- End of 2020, [Home Assistant Blue](/blue/) was launched. The first dedicated smart home hub for Home Assistant. This limited edition is based on an ODROID and known for its blue aluminum case.
- In September 2021, [Home Assistant Yellow](/yellow/) was launched. This extendable smart home hub is a custom, open-source design powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Home Assistant Yellow supports both Zigbee and Thread.
- End of 2022, [Home Assistant SkyConnect](/skyconnect/) was launched: a USB dongle that provides Zigbee and Thread network support for hubs that do not have this built-in.
- In September 2023, [Home Assistant Green](/green/) was launched. This plug-and-play smart home hub is an affordable and the easiest way to get started with Home Assistant.

## Numbers

This sections just contains some random numbers of the Home Assistant eco-system. Sorry, only the main repository counts.

| Description                                                                 | 2015 | 2016  | 2017 | 2023 |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ----- | ---- | ---- |
| [Forum posts](https://community.home-assistant.io/)                         | 352  | 33004 | 172k | 2.5M |
| [Forum topics](https://community.home-assistant.io/)                        | 83   | 4863  | 22k  | 205k |
| [Forum members](https://community.home-assistant.io/)                       | 92   | 3931  | 17k  | 193k |
| [GitHub stars](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/stargazers) | 2519 | 5239  | 12k  | 62k  |
| [GitHub forks](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/network)    | 374  | 1424  | 3.5k | 24k  |
| Page views [ha.io](/)                                                       | 600k | 6.6M  | 23M  |      |

## Commits per year

The numbers below only covers the [main git repository](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/) and doesn't take the helpers ([home-assistant.io](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io), [frontend](https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend), etc.) into account.

```bash
2013: 147
2014: 328
2015: 2963
2016: 4299
2017: 3917
2022: 9991
```

More details and statistics can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/graphs/contributors).

## First commit

The first commit in `git` was made on Sep 17, 2013 by [Paulus Schoutsen](https://github.com/balloob).

```txt
commit d55e4d53cccc9123d03f45c53441e7cbfc58e515
Author: Paulus Schoutsen <Paulus@PaulusSchoutsen.nl>

    Initial commit
```