Home automation platforms in 2026

Commercial home automation platforms

1. 1
   Amazon Alexa Amazon

   Explore Alexa+. Your AI assistant across Echo speakers, displays, tablets, smart glasses, and smart home devices. Free with Prime. Shop, browse, and more.

   Complete system Production-ready You want cheap voice-controlled speakers and the widest range of compatible smart home devices.

   6.3k readers a month Commercial
2. 2
   Apple Home Apple Inc.

   Enjoy seamless connectivity through the Home app. With Adaptive Temperature, Adaptive Lighting, Home Key, HomeKit Secure Video, and more.

   Complete system Production-ready Everyone in the house uses Apple devices and you value privacy and local control.

   1.7k readers a month Commercial
3. 3
   SmartThings Samsung Electronics

   SmartThings makes your home smarter. Meet the innovative new SmartThings features that enhance home automation and simplify your daily life.

   Complete system Production-ready You own Samsung appliances or TVs and want broad device support from a mainstream app.

   486 readers a month Since 2012 Commercial
4. 4
   Google Home Google

   Discover a smarter way to run your home. Powered by Gemini, Google Home connects thousands of devices to manage & automate your entire home.

   Complete system Production-ready You use Nest devices and Android and want voice control of a mainstream smart home.

   243 readers a month Commercial
5. 5
   Hubitat Elevation Hubitat

   Hubitat Elevation® is a local, reliable, fast and private home automation hub to connect your smart home devices. Elevate Your Environment™ with the solution that is not cloud-dependent. Shop now!

   Complete system Production-ready You want reliable local smart home automation in a ready-made box, without running Home Assistant.

   Commercial

Open-source home automation platforms

Complete systems you can adopt 7

1. 1
   Core home-assistant

   :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

   Complete system Production-ready You want local control of a smart home across many brands without relying on vendor clouds.

   ★ 92k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today
2. 2
   Frigate blakeblackshear

   NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

   Complete system Production-ready You run your own cameras and want local AI detection instead of a cloud camera service.

   ★ 37k MIT Python Active, pushed today
3. 3
   Tasmota arendst

   Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

   Complete system Production-ready You want cloud-free control of cheap Wi-Fi smart devices and can flash firmware.

   ★ 25k GPL-3.0 C Active, pushed today
4. 4
   Local Deep Research LearningCircuit

   ~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.

   Complete system Usable You want deep-research style reports while keeping models and data on your own machine.

   ★ 9.5k MIT Python Active, pushed today
5. 5
   TeslaMate teslamate-org

   A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘 [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld]

   Complete system Production-ready You own a Tesla and want detailed history of trips, charging costs and battery health on your own server.

   ★ 9.2k AGPL-3.0 Elixir Active, pushed today
6. 6
   Evcc evcc-io

   smart charging ☀️🚘

   Complete system Production-ready You have solar panels and a compatible wallbox and want to charge your EV from your own generation.

   ★ 7.5k MIT Go Active, pushed today
7. 7
   Android home-assistant

   Home Assistant Companion for Android

   Complete system Production-ready You run Home Assistant and use Android devices.

   ★ 4k Apache-2.0 Kotlin Active, pushed today

Building blocks for your own system 1

1. 1
   Frontend home-assistant

   :lollipop: Frontend for Home Assistant

   Building block Production-ready You want to contribute to Home Assistant's interface or understand how custom cards plug in.

   ★ 5.8k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today

Integrations 2

1. 1
   Zigbee2MQTT Koenkk

   Zigbee 🐝 to MQTT bridge 🌉, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges 🔨

   Integration Production-ready You run Home Assistant or another MQTT-based system and want broad Zigbee device support without proprietary bridges.

   ★ 16k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago
2. 2
   OpenMQTTGateway 1technophile

   MQTT gateway for ESP8266 or ESP32 with bidirectional 433mhz/315mhz/868mhz, Infrared communications, BLE, Bluetooth, beacons detection, mi flora, mi jia, LYWSD02, LYWSD03MMC, Mi Scale, TPMS, BBQ thermometer compatibility & LoRa.

   Integration Production-ready You want cheap sensors and remotes on various radio protocols to show up in Home Assistant or openHAB.

   ★ 4.1k GPL-3.0 C++ Active, pushed 15 days ago

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Open-source licenses

• Permissive: 21. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
• Strong copyleft: 5. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
• Network copyleft: 3. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
• Weak copyleft: 1. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.

Languages

Python 8, C++ 5, TypeScript 4, C 3, JavaScript 3, Kotlin 2, Elixir 1, Go 1, Swift 1 and Shell 1.