Awaken
your home
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Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
[Get started](/installation/)
[View live demos](https://demo.home-assistant.io) [Browse 3000+ integrations](/integrations/)
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**Top open source project** by contributors in 2024
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[](https://demo.home-assistant.io/)
Recent Blog Posts
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1. [Home Assistant officially Matters](/blog/2025/03/10/matter-certification/) March 10, 2025
2. [2025.3: View those headers!](/blog/2025/03/05/release-20253/) March 5, 2025
3. [Music Assistant's next big hit](/blog/2025/03/05/music-assistants-next-big-hit/) March 5, 2025
4. [Apollo joins the Works With Home Assistant Program](/blog/2025/02/27/apollo-joins-wwha/) February 27, 2025
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We are a non-profit and can't be sold or acquired.
Home Assistant is a project by the Open Home Foundation.
](https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/announcing-the-open-home-foundation/)[
Read our founder's vision for the perfect home automation
](/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/)
Alexa, turn on the lights
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Use Alexa to control Home Assistant.
[Learn more](/cloud/)
Ok Google, turn off the AC
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Use Google Assistant to control Home Assistant.
[Learn more](/cloud/)
Join The Community
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Our vibrant community is very active and super friendly. We love to talk and share our passion for home automation.
[Forums](https://community.home-assistant.io) [Chat](/join-chat/) [Newsletter](/newsletter/)
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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
Bring choice to voice - the best way to get started with voice
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Home Assistant Green
The easy-to-use, versatile, and trustworthy smart home hub for everyone.
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Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
Best way to add Zigbee and Thread to Home Assistant
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Home Assistant Yellow
Home Assistant Yellow is your Matter-ready, upgradeable, and extendable smart home hub. You won't need anything else.
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Home Energy Management
Monitor your energy usage, transition to sustainable energy and save money
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State of the Open Home 2024
Learn about our progress so far and also the roadmap for this year.
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Control your home with Assist
Our private, insanely fast, voice assistant running on affordable hardware. Now supporting wake words.
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Join the Home Assistant t-shirt revolution!
Look sharp in blue, black or gray. Wearing a HA t-shirt is okay.
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Features
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Works with over 1000 brands
Home Assistant integrates with over a thousand different devices and services.
Once started, Home Assistant will automatically scan your network for known devices and allow you to easily set them up.
[EXPLORE INTEGRATIONS](/integrations)
Powerful automations
Once you have integrated all your devices at home, you can unleash Home Assistant’s advanced automation engine to make your home work for you.
* Turn on the light when the sun sets or when coming home
* Alert you when you leave your garage door open.
[EXPLORE AUTOMATIONS](/docs/automation)
Versatile dashboards
Home Assistant dashboards allow you to display information about your smart home. Dashboards are customizable and provide a powerful way to manage your home from your mobile or desktop.
* Easily create and customize your dashboards with drag-and-drop.
* Different card types to visualize your data and control your smart home devices.
[EXPLORE DASHBOARDS](/dashboards)
Assist, our voice assistant
Assist allows you to control Home Assistant using natural language. It is built on top of an open voice foundation and powered by knowledge provided by our community.
* Customize your voice assistant and experiment with AI conversations.
* Use Assist everywhere on your mobile phone, tablets, smartwatches, and even old-school telephones.
[EXPLORE ASSIST](/voice_control/)
Extend your system with add-ons
Home Assistant is not just limited to Home Assistant. Easily install other applications that will help you manage your home.
* Run AdGuard, a DNS-based ad blocker
* Run third party automation engines like NodeRed
* Turn Home Assistant into a Spotify Connect target
[EXPLORE ADD-ONS](/addons)
All your smart home data stays local
Home Assistant keeps your data local, no need for a cloud.
Home Assistant communicates with your devices locally, and will fallback to pulling in data from the cloud if there is no other option. No data is stored in the cloud, and everything is processed locally.
Companion Mobile Apps
Use the official Home Assistant apps, a convenient companion to quickly control your devices and be notified when things happen in your home, even on your wrist using the Apple Watch.
The apps can also be used to send your location home to use presence detection as part of your automations. Data is sent directly to your home, no access by third-parties.
[DOWNLOAD APPS](https://companion.home-assistant.io/)
Home Energy Management
Home Assistant allows you to get on top of your energy use with its home energy management feature. Gain new insights, optimize your solar panel production, plan energy usage and save money.
[LEARN MORE](/home-energy-management/)
Home Assistant Cast
Take over all the screens. Home Assistant Cast makes every TV a display for dashboards.
[LEARN MORE](/blog/2019/08/06/home-assistant-cast/)
NFC Tags
Use NFC to bring music to your life or automate the mundane.
[LEARN MORE](/blog/2020/09/15/home-assistant-tags/)
In the press
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Trusted by home automation experts and more than a million households.
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](https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/16/22678088/home-assistant-amber-smart-home-hub-specs-release-date-price)[
](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/how-to-achieve-smart-home-nirvana-or-home-automation-without-subscription/)[
](https://tweakers.net/reviews/8704/paulus-schoutsen-home-assistant-concurreert-met-alles-wat-via-de-cloud-gaat.html)[
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pSkVarixU)[
](https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/)[
](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-home-assistant-amber)[
](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/home-assistant)[
](https://www.linux.com/news/home-assistant-python-approach-home-automation-video)[
](https://opensource.com/article/17/7/home-automation-primer)[
](http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/203/Home-Assistant)[
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