esphome VS Home Assistant

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

esphome

ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems. (by esphome)

Home Assistant

:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. (by home-assistant)
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esphome Home Assistant
225 1,410
7,577 68,378
4.9% 1.3%
9.9 10.0
1 day ago 6 days ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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esphome

Posts with mentions or reviews of esphome. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

ESPresense - An ESP32 based node for gathering indoor positioning and transmitting to mqtt

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

ESP-Now - ESP-Now Examples

Domoticz - Open source Home Automation System

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

homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient.

esp-homekit - Apple HomeKit accessory server library for ESP-OPEN-RTOS

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

tuya-convert - A collection of scripts to flash Tuya IoT devices to alternative firmwares

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)

Mycodo - An environmental monitoring and regulation system