Name: Gladys Assistant
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

A privacy-first, open-source home assistant powered by a #RaspberryPi

Gladys Assistant is a free, open-source smart home platform that runs on your own mini-PC or Raspberry Pi. Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and 90+ community integrations, a phone-first dashboard, no YAML, and it keeps working when the internet goes down.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Pierre-Gilles, and I've been building Gladys Assistant since 2013, when it was a side project on a Raspberry Pi in my bedroom. The idea hasn't changed: your home should be run by a machine you own, in your house, that keeps working when the internet goes down or when a company changes its plans. Gladys Assistant 5 is our first major version in almost six years: 🏠 A new interface designed for the phone in your pocket and the tablet on your wall 🧩 92 community integrations. Anyone can build one, in any language, and publish it on GitHub 📡 Zigbee, Z-Wave and Matter built in, plus Hue, Shelly, Sonos, Kasa, Reolink and more 🧠 Scenes with triggers, conditions and if/then/else, from a visual editor, no code The software is free and open-source. An optional subscription, Gladys Plus, adds encrypted remote access, Alexa and Google Home, backups and an AI assistant. It's how the project is funded: no investors, no ads. Most of our users are in Europe today, so I'd love to hear from you: what would you need to run your home on Gladys?

Home Assistant was abandoned by me last month because I got tired of struggling with YAML for my automation tasks and gladys with its visual scene editor and conditional logic has helped me a lot. It is working flawlessly on my mini PC alongside my Zigbee and matter devices. What I want to ask is how gladys works when two community add-ons try to access the same device at once.

The documentation for all 92 community integrations is not uniform in terms of quality because everyone is able to create a custom integration, which means that standardization in terms of templates or process would be helpful for newbies to gain trust in third-party plugins quickly. I would also appreciate more information about compatibility between versions when an integration gets updated separately.

I wanted a solution where I had local control and no YAML configuration or dependence on cloud services. Although I thought Home Assistant was very powerful, it seemed to be too complicated for my needs, and the cloud-based services had raised concerns about privacy. Gladys met all my requirements.

Gladys Assistant

A privacy-first, open-source home assistant

A privacy-first, open-source home assistant

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