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Home Assistant

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Open-source and privacy-first home automation with an emphasis on local control and backed by a worldwide community. Runs on Raspberry Pi or local server.

Home Assistant screenshot 1

License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • BSD
  • iPad
  • Self-Hosted
  • Apple Watch
  • Android Auto
  • Android Wear
  • Python
  • F-Droid
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Kodi
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5 / 5 Avg rating (11)
138likes
5comments
43alternatives
12news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Configurable
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Lightweight

Integrations

  1.  Google Home
  2. IFTTT icon  IFTTT
  3. Alexa icon  Alexa
  4.  HomeKit
  5.  Arlo

Features

  1.  Home Automation
  2.  Smart Home
  3.  Modular System
  4.  MQTT
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Voice Commands
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  9.  Support for Xiaomi MiHome
  10.  No Tracking

 Tags

Home Assistant News & Activities

Highlights • All activities

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Lockszmith_
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•Mar 5, 2021
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The best life-automation system out there. Fully integrates to anything your hear desires, and if not, the community is very keep to help.

Casper Rivers
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•Mar 29, 2025
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A lot of integration, open source

Chris
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•Jul 26, 2024
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The best home automation software. Supports more devices then any other

jeromeflesch
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•Aug 3, 2022
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Open-source. Very flexible. Allow integrating a lot of various systems together nice and tidy (Zigbee, MQTT, Influxdb, Graphana, Android, etc). In short, awesome !

WalrusTusks
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•Mar 25, 2022
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Super powerful home control software

What is Home Assistant?

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. Track and control all devices at home and automate control. Installation in less than a minute.

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Home Assistant information

  • Developed by

    Paulus Schoutsen

  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5 (11 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    43 alternatives listed

  • News

    12 news article related to Home Assistant

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Chinese
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Lithuanian
    • Malayalam
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian

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  •  33,266 Forks
  •  3238 Open Issues
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Home Assistant, and it has gotten 138 likes

Home Assistant was added to AlternativeTo by centx on Dec 19, 2015 and this page was last updated Nov 11, 2024. Home Assistant is sometimes referred to as Home Assistant.