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.