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Open Source Home Automation

Home Assistant is a home automation platform that puts local control and privacy first. The open-source project is powered project by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. It is the perfect companion to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

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🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

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Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

Check out home-assistant.io for a demo, installation instructions, tutorials and documentation.

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The system is built using a modular approach so support for other devices or actions can be implemented easily. See also the section on architecture and the section on creating your own components.

If you run into issues while using Home Assistant or during development of a component, check the Home Assistant help section of our website for further help and information.

Home Assistant - A project from the Open Home Foundation




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Watch Paulus Schotsen (creator of home-assistant) share how you can quickly set up your open-source using the Home Assistant Blue + Web Components.

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Ryan Brown

I've just recently discovered HA and installed it as a docker container. Pretty snazzy to start!

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Brian Douglas

Awesome, I am hovering over the buy button for some raspberry pi 4's.

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Ben Halpern

I need to check this out