Awesome SmartHome

🏠 Curated list of awesome SmartHome/Home Automation things.

Focusing on open technologies and solutions leaving users in control.

Table of Contents

• Notable OpenSource Projects
• Notable Commercial Systems
• Home Automation Services
  • Voice/Personal Assistants
  • Video Surveillance
• Related/Useful Services and Software
  • Dashboards
  • Floor Plans

Notable OpenSource Projects

Complete, self-hosted home automation systems with frontend, suitable for end users. At least a year in active development, at least 200 commits, at least 200 stars.

• Home Assistant Site: https://home-assistant.io/, Stars: 39187 Language: Python
• openHAB Site: http://www.openhab.org/, Stars: 3484, Language: Java
• Domoticz Site: http://www.domoticz.com/, Stars: 2831, Language: C++
• Gladys Site: https://gladysproject.com/, Stars: 1573, Language: JavaScript
• pimatic Site: https://pimatic.org/, Stars: 579, Language: JavaScript
• MajorDoMo Site: http://majordomohome.com/, Stars: 346, Language: PHP
• Freedomotic Site: http://freedomotic.com/, Stars: 352, Language: Java
• HomeGenie Site: http://homegenie.it/, Stars: 313, Language: C#
• Jeedom Site: https://www.jeedom.com/site/en/, Stars: 327, Language: PHP
• pilight Site: https://www.pilight.org/, Stars: 269, Language: C
• FHEM Site: https://fhem.de/, Revisions: 23387, Language: Perl
• MisterHouse Site: http://misterhouse.net/, Stars: 218, Language: Perl

Related awesome lists:

• Awesome Home Assistant

Notable Commercial Systems

Revolv

Was a $300 hub, offering a "lifetime subscription".

Acquired by Nest (Google subsidiary) in October 2014. In April 2016, Nest announced that Revolv Hub will cease to operate on May 15, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_Labs#Intentional_disabling_of_hardware_devices

SmartThings

• 2012-08-23 KickStarter campaign $1.2M/$250K
• 2014-08-14 Acquired by Samsung refs: (1)
• 2015-01-05 Hub 2 runs Linux refs: (1)

Uses Groovy language for (custom) components.

• SmartThings open-source components Site: http://docs.smartthings.com, Forks: 27667, Language: Groovy

Vera

Since at least 2008.

Uses Lua, open development support, community ecosystem.

Wink

• Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from invention incubator Quirky.
• After Quirky went through bankruptcy proceedings, it sold Wink to Flex in 2015.
• In July 2017, Flex sold Wink to i.am+ for $38.7M.

Ring

• 2020-01 Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos

Home Automation Services

Voice/Personal Assistants

Previously, government and mob had to break into your house to install bugs. Now you can pay a small amount of money and install yourself bugs which allow 3rd parties to eavesdrop on you.

• Apple Siri
• Amazon Alexa
• Google Assistant

OpenSource services promising no eavesdropping (please keep in mind that for some of these projects, "OpenSource" is just a marketing bait):

• Mycroft.AI, code: https://github.com/MycroftAI
• Snips, code: https://github.com/snipsco/
  • Some links point to https://github.com/snipsco/snips-platform , which isn't available. https://github.com/snipsco/snips-issues/issues/25
  • Posts: 1
• Jasper, code: https://github.com/jasperproject
• Open Assistant, code: https://github.com/openassistant
• Leon-AI, code: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon
• Olivia-AI, code: https://github.com/olivia-ai/olivia

Video Surveillance

Many services tout "P2P" in video surveillance, to allow your smartphone to connect to your camera - when you're in your home or on another side of the world. That's oxymoron of course, there's nothing "point-to-point" in how it's implemented. Both your camera and smarphone connect to faraway 3rd-party cloud server (this happens even if both in the same home network, 5 meters one from another). All video goes via (and thus to) 3rd party of course.

Mirai Botnet was/is a botnet mostly consisting of video cameras controlled by 3rd party.

Related/useful Services and Software

Dashboards

One of the basic tasks of Home Automation is visualization and control. Dashboards is a basic way to do that. Dashboard is usually included into "full stack" HA systems, but what if you don't like it or need a custom one? Note that majority of systems below offer visualization only (no control).

• https://github.com/Shopify/dashing - Ruby, 11128 stars, no longer maintained
  • https://github.com/Smashing/smashing - maintained fork, 1665 stars
• https://github.com/evolvedlight/pydashie - "Port of Dashing to Python" 416 stars
• https://github.com/allegro/tipboard - Python, 773 stars
• https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard - JavaScript, 5416 stars
• Grid Layouts
  • https://github.com/ducksboard/gridster.js - The "default" solution, jQuery plugin (6188 stars)
  • https://github.com/haltu/muuri - No jQuery dep, no item resize (7832 stars)
  • https://github.com/hootsuite/grid (3433 stars)

Floor Plans

A step above and beyond dashboards is visualizing what happens where on the actual floorplan of your home.

• ha-floorplan - Floorplans for Home Assistant
• Sweet Home 3D - Open Source desktop application (Java)
• https://planner5d.com - Online editor, allows to save/import plan in JSON format. Image renders are freemium.

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