Home Assistant icon
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Home Assistant

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

Cost / License

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
  • Cloudron
  • Kodi
  • Apple Car Play
5.0
Excellent15 ratings
196likes
8comments

Features

Properties

  1.  Configurable
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Customizable
  4.  Lightweight

Integrations

  1. Google Home icon  Google Home
  2. IFTTT icon  IFTTT
  3. Alexa icon  Alexa
  4.  HomeKit
  5. Android Auto icon  Android Auto
  6. Apple CarPlay icon  Carplay
  7.  Arlo cameras

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.  Works Offline
  10. Docker icon  Support for Docker
  11.  Support for Xiaomi MiHome
  12.  No Tracking
  13.  Two-factor Authentication

Home Assistant News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent News

Recent activities

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Lockszmith_
2

The best life-automation system out there. Fully integrates to anything your hear desires, and if not, the community is very keep to help.

robobot-robobot
0

it's cool, beacuse I OWN IT, its not on an server in Asia I OWN THE SERVER

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colada
0

Home Assistant is an excellent alternative to big-tech controlled smarthomes! Keep your sovereignty by managing your own smarthome yourself with Home Assistant.

theveridisquo
0

Home Assistant is an absolute masterpiece of modern technology. It is remarkably fast, delivering instant responses to commands without hesitation. Its stability is unmatched — it runs flawlessly day after day, with unwavering reliability that inspires complete confidence.

Above all, Home Assistant shines in its security. It has been crafted with great care to safeguard privacy and data, ensuring peace of mind while managing even the most sensitive tasks.

This platform is not only powerful and versatile but also trustworthy and refined. It represents the very pinnacle of smart home innovation, a tool that combines speed, stability, and safety in perfect harmony. Truly, Home Assistant is the ultimate choice for anyone seeking a seamless, secure, and dependable smart home experience.

Casper Rivers
0

A lot of integration, open source

Chris
0

The best home automation software. Supports more devices then any other

jeromeflesch
0

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

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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.

Home Assistant information

  • Developed by

    US flagPaulus Schoutsen
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5 (15 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    46 alternatives listed
  • News

    23 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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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about Home Assistant, and it has gotten 196 likes

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