Home Assistant

About Home Assistant

Home Assistant brings compatible smart home devices into a dashboard and automation system you can run at home. Connect an integration, check the available sensors and controls, then create a rule around a clear trigger. A motion sensor can, for example, turn on a hallway light during a chosen period. Dashboards help household members use the controls without editing the automation itself. The software is open source, and optional hosted services are available. Check whether each device integration runs locally or depends on an outside service, since that affects how it behaves during an outage. Start with a low consequence routine and test what happens if a device becomes unavailable before relying on it.