Home Assistant
Runs your smart home on your own hardware, with local control.
Instead of Google Home, Alexa
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Home Assistant connects thousands of kinds of devices and runs the automations in your own house, so lights still turn on when the internet goes down. It is open source, owned by a foundation that says it will not sell it.
It has a real learning curve, and you need a small computer to run it, so Delivery is a 3.
- Runs your home on your own hardware, with local control
- Supports thousands of device types
- Has a real learning curve
What stands out
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For comparison, we also reviewed Amazon Alexa (14/30) as a benchmark.
