📌 hat is Home Assistant?
Home Assistant is one of the most powerful and flexible smart home platforms available. It lets you control all your smart devices from one place — completely locally, privacy-friendly, and endlessly customizable.
🏠 Why people choose Home Assistant
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Privacy First
Everything runs locally. No cloud required. Your data stays inside your home. -
Works With Everything
Supports more than 1000+ brands like Philips Hue, Shelly, Zigbee, Z-Wave and ESPHome. -
Powerful Automations
Create automations based on time, location, sensors, weather and more. -
Fully Customizable
Build dashboards, edit YAML, add integrations and tailor everything to your needs.
🔧 How Home Assistant works
Runs on a Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant Yellow, Intel NUC or a virtual machine.
Connects smart devices over WiFi, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, MQTT and more.
Supports automations in YAML or through the built-in visual editor.
Control your home with beautiful dashboards on your phone, tablet or wall-mounted screen.
🚀 Perfect for ESPHome & Arduino projects
Home Assistant is the ideal platform if you build your own devices. Whether you create sensors with ESPHome or full projects with Arduino — you can add them directly to your smart home system.