Home Assistant as the local brain — not a subscription sitting in someone else's cloud. Matter, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave and Wi-Fi devices, wired or wireless, brought together into one system that works with Apple Home and Google Home, and keeps working even if the company that made your light bulb doesn't.
* Apple Home runs through your own local hub, so there's nothing further to pay. Google Home and Samsung SmartThings integrations typically rely on a small third-party cloud subscription (e.g. Nabu Casa) — we'll always flag this upfront if it applies to what you want.
Most smart home systems on the market are closed by design — a proprietary hub like Control4, locked to one brand's approved (and marked-up) hardware, managed through one installer forever. It works, until the company changes its pricing, drops support, or you want to switch installers and find out you can't.
We build the opposite. Home Assistant runs locally in your home as the brain of the system — no cloud dependency for your lights to turn on. Open protocols like Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and Z-Wave mean devices from almost any brand can join the same system, wired or wireless, retrofitted into an existing house or planned into a new build. If you still want to say "Hey Siri" or use the Google Home app, we expose everything through Apple Home and Google Home too — you get the open system underneath and the simple voice control on top.
Same outcome on the surface — lights, locks, climate, garage doors all controllable from your phone — very different underneath.
Every install starts with what you actually want automated — from one garage door to a whole house.
Runs on hardware inside your home, not a data centre somewhere else. Full history, full control, no company standing between you and your own lights.
The FoundationWe're not tied to one protocol. Devices are chosen for reliability and openness, then joined into a single system regardless of which standard they speak.
Open StandardsHardwired where it matters for reliability, wireless where that's the only sensible option — especially in a retrofit. We don't force one approach on every job.
Retrofit-FriendlyThe open system runs underneath, but if you just want to say "Hey Siri, goodnight" or control things from the Google Home app, everything's exposed there too.
Voice ControlYou pay for the install and the hardware, once — Apple Home runs through your own local hub with nothing further to pay. If you'd rather use Google Home or Samsung SmartThings, those typically need their own small cloud subscription (e.g. Nabu Casa); we'll always tell you upfront if that applies.
Own It OutrightOne smart garage opener. One AC unit brought into the same app as everything else. A full whole-house build. Every job starts the same way — with what you actually want solved.
Any ScaleThis client already had Philips Hue lighting and HomePods running through Apple Home, but two things sat completely outside that system. The garage door only had physical remotes — with no spare fob for the second car, it meant either digging one out or getting out to use a keypad every time. Separately, the ducted air conditioning system was controllable only through its own manufacturer app: functional, but clunky, and disconnected from everything else in the house.
Nothing about the existing setup needed replacing — not the ducted system, not the garage motor. The job was about bridging what was already there into one open, local system rather than adding another siloed app to juggle. It's the same reason we stay flexible on hardware brand for jobs like this: the approach is what matters, not locking a client into one specific product that might not be the best option next year.
The biggest everyday win wasn't either device on its own — it was having the ducted air conditioning sitting right alongside the existing Hue lighting and HomePods in one app, instead of a separate, clunkier manufacturer app. Asking Siri to turn it on or off quickly became part of the daily routine. The garage door solved a smaller but constant annoyance: not every car in the house had a fob. Now the garage can be opened with a quick word to Siri while pulling into the driveway.