Plan your smart home before you buy.

Free, independent advice on what to automate, which devices work together, and how to keep it private and reliable.

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What you can ask me

Start with one question or a whole-home idea.

How the advice works

Plan the whole home
Decide what is worth automating, and in what order.
Check compatibility
Find out what works with Home Assistant before you buy.
Design an automation
Turn a routine into clear triggers, checks and a manual fallback.
Review your setup
Find what is unreliable, and what to fix first.

Advice from a home that runs on it.

Solar, a 48 kWh battery, an electric car, eight air-conditioning zones and hot water, coordinated by more than 80 automations like this one:

When: electricity is free during the day
And if: the dishwasher is loaded and closed
Then: start it

Explore the showcase

Home Assistant dashboard with four air-conditioning zones, each showing target and current temperature — Four of the eight air-conditioning zones, with a whole-house quiet mode.

Home Assistant phone app showing favourites, summaries and rooms on one screen

One app for every brand, run from your own home.

Home Assistant is free and open source. Your dashboards, automations and history stay on your own hardware, with no separate app for each brand.

What the phone app can do

How it works

Send your question
A plain description is enough. No device list needed.
Have a short conversation
30 to 60 minutes by video, phone or email.
Keep the written notes
Options, trade-offs and next steps in plain language.

Short guides

What should your home do for you?

Tell me the outcome you want. I will help with the how.