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Home Assistant vs home-assistant-glow

Home Assistant has 91,137 GitHub stars, 38,750 forks, 3,527 open issues and last shipped yesterday. home-assistant-glow has 1,269 stars, 182 forks, 12 open issues and last shipped 4 days ago. Home Assistant leads on adoption by 7,082% (91,137 vs 1,269 stars). Home Assistant is written in Python under Apache-2.0; home-assistant-glow is written in various languages under MIT. Home Assistant has attracted 43% as many forks as stars, home-assistant-glow 14%. Home Assistant was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (hacktoberfest, iot), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.

Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.

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About Home Assistant

Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform that runs locally on devices such as Raspberry Pi or a personal server. It enables users to control and automate smart home devices—including lights, thermostats, locks, and sensors—without relying on cloud services. Built in Python with an asyncio event loop, it emphasizes local processing and data sovereignty, ensuring all device data remains under the user’s control.

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About home-assistant-glow

Home Assistant Glow is an open source firmware and hardware project that reads the pulse LED on an electricity meter and sends those measurements to Home Assistant, built for home automation users whose meter has no P1 port and who are willing to assemble a small ESP based sensor themselves.

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