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New Guide: The Recommended Hardware to Get Started With Gladys

· One min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone!

I just added a new page to the documentation: the recommended hardware to build a reliable home automation setup with Gladys.

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Gladys 4.74: Sunrise & Sunset Offsets in Your Scenes ☀️

· One min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

A new version of Gladys Assistant is available, with several fixes and improvements around Matter, Zigbee2MQTT, and sun-based scenes ☀️

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Gladys 4.73: Major Matter.js Upgrade, Local Tuya & MCP Server

· 2 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone 👋

A new version of Gladys Assistant is available: v4.73.0! This release brings several important improvements around energy, Matter, Local Tuya support, and the Airplay integration.

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Gladys Plus Evolves: New Page and a Free Trial Without a Credit Card

· 3 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

After several years of strong growth, Gladys Plus hit a plateau in 2025: growth slowed, then almost stopped. So I took a step back to understand what was holding it back, and invested a lot of time getting Gladys Plus back on track.

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Matterbridge + AI: Make Any Device Work With Gladys, Without Writing Code

· 2 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

I spent a lot of last week tinkering with Matterbridge, and I had a real "aha" moment I wanted to share: we're going to be able to make any device Matter-compatible, and therefore Gladys-compatible, without writing a single line of code.

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Gladys 4.72: Faster AI, Rock-Solid HomeKit & Plenty of Fixes

· 2 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone!

Gladys Assistant 4.72.0 is available 🎉, with a faster AI, a more stable HomeKit, and a long list of fixes.

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Mistral vs ElevenLabs: Is the Voice AI Revolution French? 🇫🇷

· 2 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

Last week, Mistral released a new Text-to-Speech model (Voxtral) capable of running 100% locally, without sending any data to the cloud. I wanted to test it head-to-head against ElevenLabs, and honestly, the results are really good!

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How to Make Any Washing Machine “Smart” With a Single Zigbee Plug

· One min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

Today I want to share a genuinely useful automation I set up at home, using nothing more than a simple connected Zigbee plug: turning a regular washing machine into a "smart" one.

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Gladys 4.71: A More Robust Nuki & Major Matter Improvements

· 2 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

This new version brings significant improvements to Matter and Nuki, plus several bug fixes.

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Gladys 4.70: Reset Your Zigbee2mqtt Integration in One Click

· 2 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone,

A new version of Gladys is out, focused on UX and stability improvements for the Zigbee2mqtt and MQTT integrations.

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