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Someone open sourced a home automation platform that runs entirely on your own hardware - and it supports over 1,000 integrations out of the box. It's called Home Assistant. And it's not a smart home app. It's a complete, self-hosted home automation OS - local control, no cloud required, no subscription, no company in the middle reading your data. Here's what it actually does: → Controls lights, locks, cameras, thermostats, sensors, and appliances from one dashboard → 1,000+ integrations: Philips Hue, Google Nest, Apple HomeKit, Zigbee, Z-Wave, MQTT, and more → Automations that run locally - no internet connection required, no latency → Energy monitoring dashboard - track solar production, grid usage, and battery storage in real time → Full mobile app for iOS and Android with location awareness → Works on Raspberry Pi, home server, NAS, or any x86-64 machine with UEFI → Monthly releases - 2026.3 shipped last week Here's the wildest part: Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple HomeKit all route your smart home data through their servers. Home Assistant runs on a Raspberry Pi in your closet. Your automations fire in milliseconds. Your data never leaves your house. Your devices keep working when the cloud goes down - which they will. Amazon discontinued Alexa Classic. Google killed Stadia, Inbox, and a hundred other products. Apple required a HomePod hub. Home Assistant has shipped a new release every single month for over a decade. 85.5K GitHub stars. 37K forks. Still going. 100% Open Source. Apache-2.0 License.
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. - home-assistant/core
This disenshittifies a whole lot of things. Now while I don't put much trust in IOT and smart home hardware, using only two remotely controlled electrical sockets and a smart bulb that I originally intended to run through IFTTT, I welcome solutions that skip the corporate middlemen, their services and servers that can be shut down at any moment, leaving you with a lot of useless electronic scrap.

















