Open source home-automation projects
Every project in the registry tagged home-automation, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Local control smart home automation with privacy first
Your personal cloud OS for simple, elegant home servers
NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition)
~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 pri
A self-hosted data logger for your Tesla 🚘 [main maintainer=@JakobLichterfeld]
Python library & console tool for controlling Xiaomi smart appliances
MQTT gateway for ESP8266 or ESP32 with bidirectional 433mhz/315mhz/868mhz, Infrared communications, BLE, Bluetooth, beacons detection, mi flora, mi jia, LYWSD02
Home Assistant Companion for Android
Free open source home automation system for Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi. Supports Z-Wave, Zigbee, MQTT, and 150+ devices.
Infrared remote library for ESP8266/ESP32: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols. Based on: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote/
Self-hosted home automation without the cloud
❇️ Lovelace button-card for home assistant
:iphone: Home Assistant for Apple platforms
:house_with_garden: Home Assistant Supervisor
HomeKit Library for the Arduino-ESP32
:house: My Home Assistant configuration, a bit different that others :) Be sure to :star2: this repository for updates!
Control for Tapo cameras as a Home Assistant component
This card provides a user-friendly way to fully control map-based vacuums in Home Assistant. Supported brands include Xiaomi (Roborock/Viomi/Dreame/Roidmi/Valet
deCONZ REST-API plugin to control ZigBee devices
:house: Buildroot-based, cloud-free smart-home platform for a Homematic IP CCU (CCU3/ELV-Charly). Runs on Raspberry Pi & x86/ARM or as a virtual appliance (Prox
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source home-automation projects are there?
This registry tracks 21 projects tagged home-automation, with 253,373 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is Home Assistant at 90,654 stars.
Are these home-automation projects free to use?
Yes — 21 of the 21 carry an explicit open-source licence across 6 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which home-automation project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these home-automation projects still maintained?
20 of the 21 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.