Local Control and Privacy
Home Assistant is an open‑source home automation platform that prioritises local control and privacy. It integrates with over 1000 brands and automatically discovers devices on your network. Its powerful automation engine lets you turn on lights at sunset, send alerts if a garage door is left open or create complex sequences. Home Assistant offers versatile dashboards that you can customise with drag‑and‑drop widgets and includes Assist, a voice assistant with natural language and customisable voices. The platform stores all data locally and provides companion mobile apps for quick control and notifications.
We consider Home Assistant the heart of many smart homes in the Southern Highlands. Its flexibility allows integration of mainstream products like Hue, Sonos and Ecovacs with niche devices using Zigbee, Z‑Wave or Thread. Highlands Smart Homes configures Home Assistant on a dedicated server or NAS, sets up secure remote access via VPN and designs dashboards tailored to your lifestyle. We train you to build automations and offer support packages to keep your system updated. If you value privacy and want your smart home to keep working when the internet goes down, Home Assistant is the ideal choice.