core

:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

⭐ 87,692 stars on GitHub · 🍴 37,666 forks · 📜 License: apache-2.0 · 💻 Language: Python

What is core?

Relying on vendor clouds for your smart home introduces latency, privacy risks, and single points of failure. Take back control of your IoT infrastructure with a Python-powered automation engine designed to keep all processing strictly local.

Main components

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ asyncio
• 🏷️ hacktoberfest
• 🏷️ home-automation
• 🏷️ internet-of-things
• 🏷️ iot
• 🏷️ mqtt
• 🏷️ python
• 🏷️ raspberry-pi

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/home-assistant/core.git
cd core
docker build -t core .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 core

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: home-assistant/core
• 🌐 Homepage: https://www.home-assistant.io
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 13/06/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.