homeserver vs Home Assistant

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Backend and frontend for my home server (by nicbou)

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

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homeserver		Home Assistant
	Project
2	Mentions	1,411
42	Stars	68,666
-	Growth	0.7%
8.3	Activity	10.0
16 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
-	License	Apache License 2.0

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homeserver

Posts with mentions or reviews of homeserver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-04.

What Are Your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?
50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022

My own timeline thing.
It hosts all of my data plus my personal diary. I update it at least once a day. My photos, backups and geolocation are automatically uploaded to it.
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline
My home server gets a lot of use too. It's mostly my own code, plus Transmission.
https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver
I also have a few lines of code that take my browser's search queries and routes them according to keywords. Browsers do this natively now, but old habits die hard. Every search query goes through it.
Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2021

Perhaps it's time to start a collection of ffmpeg commands for every situation. I feel like I have to look at my old projects every time I need to use it. It took me a lot of trial and error to write an all-purpose ffmpeg command.
This is how I convert videos to 720p web-playable videos (if it's not already web-playable):
https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver/blob/22c0a160f9df5f4c34...
This is how I create hover previews like on modern streaming sites:
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline/blob/9d9340930ed0213dffdd...

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.

Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024

Apparently the same issue has been reported with Philips TV [1] and Fritz!Box [2] as well.
[1] https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/73643#issuecom...
[2] https://forum.openwrt.org/t/minidlna-creates-new-media-serve...
Is it Dry Yet?
1 project | dev.to | 12 Apr 2024

The plug would transmit power readings to my Home Assistant setup.
Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to control IoT devices from your desktop?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
Changes we're making to Google Assistant
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2024

Home Assistant can cast dashboard/media/etc to your display and has shopping lists. https://www.home-assistant.io/
Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023

If you provided MQTT support like plenty of IoT companies do, then any open source home automation tool can integrate! Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) have a grading system, so a local-first implementation would give you their highest score since they also really care about privacy. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-th...
Script Editor Automation Issue
1 project | /r/googlehome | 11 Dec 2023

It's hard not to raise a little smile at Google's automation scripts, which bare a not-entirely-passing resemblance to those of a certain other, more comprehensive home automation system...
Best way to make smart lamp safe?
1 project | /r/AskElectronics | 11 Dec 2023

You might consider looking into "Home Assistant".
Vos expériences avec Hilo?
1 project | /r/Quebec | 11 Dec 2023
Älytaloista kokemuksia?
2 projects | /r/Suomi | 11 Dec 2023
Home Assistant – open-source home automation
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2023

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Ansible-NAS - Build a full-featured home server or NAS replacement with an Ubuntu box and this playbook.

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

WebMCam - Capture frames in real-time and save them as WebM.

Domoticz - Open source Home Automation System

homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient.

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

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

openHAB - Add-ons for openHAB 1.x

CompreFace - Leading free and open-source face recognition system

Jeedom core - Software for home automation

Huginn - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!