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Curated list of awesome SmartHome/Home Automation things (open and leaving users in control)
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# Awesome SmartHome



> :house: Curated list of awesome

[SmartHome/Home Automation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation)

things.



Focusing on open technologies and solutions leaving users in control.



## Table of Contents



- [Notable OpenSource Projects](#notable-opensource-projects)

- [Notable Commercial Systems](#notable-commercial-systems)

- [Home Automation Services](#home-automation-services)

  - [Voice/Personal Assistants](#voice-personal-assistants)

  - [Video Surveillance](#video-surveillance)

- [Related/Useful Services and Software](#related-useful-services-and-software)

  - [Dashboards](#dashboards)

  - [Floor Plans](#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](https://github.com/home-assistant/core) Site: https://home-assistant.io/, Stars: 39187 Language: Python

* [openHAB](https://github.com/openhab) Site: http://www.openhab.org/, Stars: 3484, Language: Java

* [Domoticz](https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz) Site: http://www.domoticz.com/, Stars: 2831, Language: C++

* [Gladys](https://github.com/GladysProject/Gladys) Site: https://gladysproject.com/, Stars: 1573, Language: JavaScript

* [pimatic](https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic) Site: https://pimatic.org/, Stars: 579, Language: JavaScript

* [MajorDoMo](https://github.com/sergejey/majordomo) Site: http://majordomohome.com/, Stars: 346, Language: PHP

* [Freedomotic](https://github.com/freedomotic/freedomotic) Site: http://freedomotic.com/, Stars: 352, Language: Java

* [HomeGenie](https://github.com/genielabs/HomeGenie/) Site: http://homegenie.it/, Stars: 313, Language: C#

* [Jeedom](https://github.com/jeedom/core) Site: https://www.jeedom.com/site/en/, Stars: 327, Language: PHP

* [pilight](https://github.com/pilight/pilight) Site: https://www.pilight.org/, Stars: 269, Language: C

* [FHEM](https://github.com/mhop/fhem-mirror) Site: https://fhem.de/, Revisions: 23387, Language: Perl

* [MisterHouse](https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse) Site: http://misterhouse.net/, Stars: 218, Language: Perl



Related awesome lists:



* [Awesome Home Assistant](https://github.com/frenck/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](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartthings/smartthings-make-your-world-smarter)

  $1.2M/$250K

* 2014-08-14 [Acquired by Samsung](http://www.samsung.com/us/news/23607)

  refs: [(1)](http://linuxgizmos.com/samsung-smartthings-pickup-could-mean-new-role-for-tizen/)

* 2015-01-05 [Hub 2 runs Linux](http://blog.smartthings.com/news/smartthings-updates/new-hub-sensors-optional-services-integrations/)

  refs: [(1)](http://linuxgizmos.com/gen-2-smartthings-hub-migrates-to-linux/)



Uses Groovy language for (custom) components.



* [SmartThings open-source components](https://github.com/SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsPublic) 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](https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data)



## 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](https://mycroft.ai/), code: https://github.com/MycroftAI

* [Snips](https://www.snips.ai/), 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](https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-air-a-private-by-design-open-source-decentralized-voice-assistant-a31e27fb799b)

* [Jasper](https://jasperproject.github.io/), code: https://github.com/jasperproject

* [Open Assistant](https://openassistant.org/), code: https://github.com/openassistant

* [Leon-AI](https://getleon.ai/), code: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon

* [Olivia-AI](https://olivia-ai.org/), 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)) 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](https://github.com/pkozul/ha-floorplan) - Floorplans for Home Assistant

* [Sweet Home 3D](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/) - 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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