Home Assistant VS WLED

Compare Home Assistant vs WLED and see what are their differences.

Home Assistant

:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. (by home-assistant)

WLED

Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi! (by Aircoookie)
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Home Assistant WLED
1,410 599
68,378 13,823
1.3% -
10.0 9.5
6 days ago 4 days ago
Python C++
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Home Assistant

Posts with mentions or reviews of Home Assistant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-12.

WLED

Posts with mentions or reviews of WLED. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Home Assistant and WLED you can also consider the following projects:

Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

Domoticz - Open source Home Automation System

FastLED - The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements.

homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient.

NightDriverStrip - NightDriver client for ESP32

CasaOS - CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system.

OpenRGB

FHEM - Branch 'master' is an unofficial read-only-mirror of https://svn.fhem.de/fhem/trunk which is updated once a day. (branch sf_old a mirror of the old repo: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/fhem/code/trunk)

LedFx - LedFx is a network based LED effect controller with support for advanced real-time audio effects! LedFx can control multiple devices and works great with cheap ESP8266 nodes allowing for cost effectvice syncronized effects across your entire house!

Mycodo - An environmental monitoring and regulation system

hyperion.ng - The successor to Hyperion aka Hyperion Next Generation