Whole-Home Home Assistant Systems

What is included

• A dedicated hub in your homeA quiet, reliable small computer running Home Assistant, on a battery backup, with Zigbee, Z‑Wave and Thread/Matter radios so it can speak to devices from many manufacturers directly — no cloud in between.
• Security, unifiedDoor and window sensors, motion, glass-break, smoke and CO, water leak sensors, cameras and sirens all reporting to one place — with an alarm mode that arms itself when everyone leaves and disarms when the right code is entered.
• Locks that answer to youSmart deadbolts managed from the hub: a code for the family, temporary codes for a cleaner or contractor that expire on schedule, notification when a door is unlocked at an odd hour, and automatic locking at night.
• Climate, lighting and energyThermostats, lights, and plugs on sensible schedules and presence rules — the lights that come on when someone approaches the porch at night are both convenience and deterrent.
• Automations written for how you liveWe sit down with your household and build the rules together, in plain language first, so nobody is surprised by their own house.
• A local voice assistant (optional)For households who want to talk to their home, we can install a voice assistant that processes speech on the hub itself, so conversations in your kitchen stay in your kitchen. Where you prefer to keep an existing assistant, we integrate it carefully.
• Secure remote accessCheck the house, lock a door or view a camera from anywhere over an encrypted connection — without exposing your home to the open internet.
• Documented, backed up, yoursAutomatic backups, a network diagram, a device inventory, and a handbook that lets you — or any competent technician — maintain the system without us.

Why Home Assistant

Because it puts the household in charge. It runs locally, so a lock or an alarm keeps working when your internet drops or when a company retires its app. It speaks to devices from hundreds of manufacturers, so you are not confined to one brand's catalog. It is free and open, maintained by one of the largest open-source communities in the world, and it stores your data in your house. For a whole-home security and automation system, we have not found anything that serves families better. Read our plain-language explanation in What Home Assistant is.

Where “AI” fits — and where it does not

The useful part is quieter than the advertisements suggest. Person and vehicle detection on cameras (running on your hub, not in the cloud) means an alert when someone walks up the drive and silence when the neighbor's cat does. Presence detection means the house knows when it is empty. A local voice assistant means you can say “lock up” without a subscription. We use these tools where they reduce false alarms and effort. We do not connect your locks to a chatbot, and we will tell you plainly when a feature is a novelty rather than a safeguard.

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