openHAB review: home automation you host
openHAB is open source home automation you run at home. See what stays on your hardware, how the phone apps work, and when remote access is optional.
openHAB is open source home automation you run at home. See what stays on your hardware, how the phone apps work, and when remote access is optional.
Home Assistant is the open-source heart of a private smart home: it speaks Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Wi-Fi and everything else through thousands of integrations, runs all your automations locally, and shows no ads because there is no company selling your routines. A global community maintains it, and it runs on a Raspberry Pi. The setup […]
Homey, from the Netherlands, is a local-first smart home hub with a beautiful flow-based automation editor and support for the major wireless protocols. The company sells hardware, and says it does not sell your data. The Pro model costs real money and some advanced apps carry subscriptions. Choose it for the interface and the protocol […]
Hubitat runs your smart home locally: automations execute on the hub itself, not on a vendor’s cloud, so lights and locks keep working when the internet is down. Zigbee, Z-Wave and LAN devices live in one box. Rule building has an engineer’s learning curve, and a few integrations still depend on cloud drivers. Local-first done […]
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