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News, insights, and updates from Selora Homes

June 17, 2026

AI Powered Smart Home Automation

How AI powered smart home automation uses real household patterns to unify lighting, climate, security, and entertainment into a home that simply works.

June 16, 2026

Industry Insights

What Is Smart Home Automation?

What is smart home automation? Learn how connected devices, rules, and AI work together to simplify lighting, climate, security, and more.

Selora AI v0.10.0: Selora AI Local, Your Home's First Private LLM

June 16, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.10.0: Selora AI Local, Your Home's First Private LLM

Selora AI v0.10.0 introduces Selora AI Local, a purpose-built LLM that runs entirely on your own hardware, alongside an in-place scene editor, a label-driven suggestion ignore list, scoped MCP write access, and a long list of robustness fixes.

Selora AI v0.9.0: Tiered Command Approval, a Smarter Composer, and Safer Automations

May 29, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.9.0: Tiered Command Approval, a Smarter Composer, and Safer Automations

Selora AI v0.9.0 introduces risk-tiered command approval, entity autocomplete in the chat composer, per-provider token tracking, accept-and-enable for suggested automations, and stricter automation validation before Home Assistant reload.

Selora AI v0.8.0: Selora AI Cloud, Token Tracking & Savings, and Scenes Everywhere

May 7, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.8.0: Selora AI Cloud, Token Tracking & Savings, and Scenes Everywhere

Selora AI v0.8.0 ships our managed Selora AI Cloud provider, a new Usage panel that tracks token consumption with cost estimates, optimizations that cut token usage on the hourly suggestion job, end-to-end Scenes support, and a redesigned chat with native Home Assistant device cards.

April 27, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.7.0: Scenes, Scheduled Actions, and OpenRouter

Selora AI v0.7.0 lets you create scenes and schedule actions through natural language, accept or dismiss suggestions conversationally, and connect to any LLM via OpenRouter.

April 21, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.6.1: UI Fixes

Selora AI v0.6.1 is a quick patch release fixing UI issues reported after v0.6.0 — raw JSON in command responses and light mode rendering.

April 20, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.6.0: Google Gemini, Proactive Chat, and Smarter Suggestions

Selora AI v0.6.0 adds Google Gemini as an LLM provider, surfaces proactive suggestions directly in chat, offers to act after state queries, and hardens entity validation across the board.

April 13, 2026

Product Updates

Selora AI v0.5.0: OAuth, MCP Tokens, and 1-Click Install

Selora AI v0.5.0 is our biggest release yet — OAuth 2.0 for MCP, dedicated MCP tokens, LLM feedback from suggestions, 1-click install for Selora Homes customers, and easier HACS onboarding.

April 3, 2026

Product Updates

Product Update: Selora AI v0.4.0 and the Road to OpenClaw

Selora AI v0.4.0 is out with critical bug fixes for generated automations, a refreshed UI, the first MCP server iteration, and one-click install for Selora Hub users. Plus a look ahead at OAuth, Selora AI Cloud, and ZeroClaw.

March 30, 2026

Industry Insights

OpenClaw for your House

Andrej Karpathy typed three prompts and music started playing. Here's what OpenClaw means for your home — and why the smart home app era is ending.

March 27, 2026

Product Updates

Product Update: Selora AI Alpha Prep and First MCP Integration

This week's highlights: Selora AI gets closer to alpha with a refreshed design matching Connect, the Home Assistant integration is available via HACS, and we shipped our first MCP to bridge Home Assistant with external agents.

March 20, 2026

Product Updates

Product Update: Selora AI Panel Redesign, Proactive Suggestions, and MCP Server Launch

This week's highlights: Selora AI gets a full panel redesign with amber branding, a proactive suggestions pipeline surfaces AI-recommended automations, and the Selora MCP server ships its first release.

March 15, 2026

Product Updates

Product Update: Selora AI Takes Shape, Frigate Support, and Static IP for Selora Hub

This week's highlights: Selora AI lands its first commits with automation recommendations and chat, Selora Hub gets managed Frigate support for turnkey security, and a new static IP option for Home Assistant VMs.

Selora Homes Expands to Los Angeles: Smart Home Installation Comes to Southern California

February 16, 2026

Company News

Selora Homes Expands to Los Angeles: Smart Home Installation Comes to Southern California

After a successful launch in the Bay Area, Selora Homes brings professionally installed and managed Home Assistant systems to Los Angeles, and we're looking for installers to join us.

Selora Homes Launches in San Francisco: Professional Smart Home Installation, Without the Premium Price Tag

December 5, 2025

Company News

Selora Homes Launches in San Francisco: Professional Smart Home Installation, Without the Premium Price Tag

We're bringing professionally installed and managed Home Assistant systems to the Bay Area—giving you the reliability of proprietary systems at a fraction of the cost.

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AI Powered Smart Home Automation

What Is Smart Home Automation?

Selora AI v0.10.0: Selora AI Local, Your Home's First Private LLM

Selora AI v0.9.0: Tiered Command Approval, a Smarter Composer, and Safer Automations

Selora AI v0.8.0: Selora AI Cloud, Token Tracking & Savings, and Scenes Everywhere

Selora AI v0.7.0: Scenes, Scheduled Actions, and OpenRouter

Selora AI v0.6.1: UI Fixes

Selora AI v0.6.0: Google Gemini, Proactive Chat, and Smarter Suggestions

Selora AI v0.5.0: OAuth, MCP Tokens, and 1-Click Install

Product Update: Selora AI v0.4.0 and the Road to OpenClaw

OpenClaw for your House

Product Update: Selora AI Alpha Prep and First MCP Integration

Product Update: Selora AI Panel Redesign, Proactive Suggestions, and MCP Server Launch

Product Update: Selora AI Takes Shape, Frigate Support, and Static IP for Selora Hub

Selora Homes Expands to Los Angeles: Smart Home Installation Comes to Southern California

Selora Homes Launches in San Francisco: Professional Smart Home Installation, Without the Premium Price Tag

Learn More About
Our Installers Program

Book a Free Consultation

AI Powered Smart Home Automation

What Is Smart Home Automation?

Selora AI v0.10.0: Selora AI Local, Your Home's First Private LLM

Selora AI v0.9.0: Tiered Command Approval, a Smarter Composer, and Safer Automations

Selora AI v0.8.0: Selora AI Cloud, Token Tracking & Savings, and Scenes Everywhere

Selora AI v0.7.0: Scenes, Scheduled Actions, and OpenRouter

Selora AI v0.6.1: UI Fixes

Selora AI v0.6.0: Google Gemini, Proactive Chat, and Smarter Suggestions

Selora AI v0.5.0: OAuth, MCP Tokens, and 1-Click Install

Product Update: Selora AI v0.4.0 and the Road to OpenClaw

OpenClaw for your House

Product Update: Selora AI Alpha Prep and First MCP Integration

Product Update: Selora AI Panel Redesign, Proactive Suggestions, and MCP Server Launch

Product Update: Selora AI Takes Shape, Frigate Support, and Static IP for Selora Hub

Selora Homes Expands to Los Angeles: Smart Home Installation Comes to Southern California

Selora Homes Launches in San Francisco: Professional Smart Home Installation, Without the Premium Price Tag

Learn More AboutOur Installers Program

Book a Free Consultation

Learn More About
Our Installers Program