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Home Assistant Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Home Assistant
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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esphome
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
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paperless-ngx
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
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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
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better Home Assistant alternative or higher similarity.
Home Assistant discussion
Home Assistant reviews and mentions
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 2025-05-17.
- Home Assistant Core Copilot and Claude Instructions
- A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: case studies
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DIY Smart home project: Presence-activated lights
I also recently began to use Home Assistant. Think of it as an open-source and more powerful alternative to Google Home/Amazon Alexa/Apple HomeKit/Samsung SmartThings. With those vendor platforms, you're limited to what they support. With Home Assistant, you can build your own setups and connect things as you wish, whether it's totally DIY or consumer-ready products from vendors.
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How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/requirements... lists all the direct dependencies installed in the container.
It's enough for just a single direct or indirect dependency to be compromised to have a botnet or turn it into something used for surveillance against the users.
Preventing it from exfiltrating data by isolating it from the network with Internet access is the only option if you want to run it. This requires local only devices.
Accessing it through the web UI or through the mobile app will still load icons from https://brands.home-assistant.io. The details are in this ticket https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/issues/18549
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The Home Assistant model
Home Assistant
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Why Home Assistant?
This time, I attended Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools. I thought it would be about OpenTelemetry for your home. After the speaker mentioned Home Assistant, however, I didn't pay much attention to the rest.
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Self-updating Containers on Linux with Quadlet aka podman-system-generator
The rootless .container files go into ~/.config/containers/systemd. I'm using one to run Home Assistant.
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AWS open source newsletter, #204
ha-aws-cost is a project from Diego Marques for folks who use Home Assistant (a very popular open source home automation system), and provides custom component interacts with AWS to get the month to date cost and forecast cost and make it available on Home Assistant. It adds two new entities 1/Month to date cost: The current cost of your AWS account, and 2/Forecasted month costs: The forecasted cost based in your current consumption. Check out Diego's post on LinkedIn that provides some more background to this project.
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Busy Status Bar from Flipper Devices
Nice!
For a home-rolled solution, I use a GE CYNC ST19 Edison Style bulb in a socket right outside my office door. I have it configured through Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/), and then use Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) on my macbook to make an API call to Home Assistant when the camera state changes.
If my camera turns on/off, so does the light bulb. Works really well for letting my family know I'm busy in meetings.
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Setting Up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Given these changes, I thought about reintroducing Homebridge. But upon researching, I discovered Home Assistant.
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Stats
Basic Home Assistant repo stats
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home-assistant/core is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Home Assistant is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Home Assistant is Python.
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