Hands on with Home Assistant’s new ‘smart home multi-tool’

The Aux-2 can be many things. Even a hat for your amp! | Photo: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Nabu Casa - the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation , which runs Home Assistant - just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2 , a multi-function box designed to help you bring mo

The Aux-2 can be many things. Even a hat for your amp! | Photo: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Nabu Casa - the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation , which runs Home Assistant - just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2 , a multi-function box designed to help you bring more devices into your smart home.

It's part of Home Assistant's ongoing efforts to become more user-friendly . And it's working. I've been testing the Aux-2 for a couple days and I've found it unsurprisingly useful and surprisingly easy to set up.

The Aux-2 is a $69 box about the size of a deck of cards. It has 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB-A, USB-C, a digital/analog audio jack, a Grove port for interfacing with peripherals like sensors, buttons, and … Read the full story at The Verge.