Home Assistant

overview Home Assistant is essentially a home automation platform designed to be both accessible to users and powerful for enthusiasts. It is hosted on local hardware using software created by Nabu Casa (who also maintain ESPHome, a project I fully intend to utilize in the future). Home Assistant boasts a dedicated enterprise community that have developed a robust ecosystem of hardware and software compatible with Home Assistant right out of the box. Furthermore, through the Home Assistant Community Store (colloquially HACS), users can install and run custom integrations, add-ons, and UI components created and maintained by Home Assistant’s passionate user community. ...