Your smart home, done for you.
We design, build and install local-first home automation β or ship you a ready-to-run device. Privacy-first, no cloud lock-in, powered by the open-source tech we engineer ourselves.
South Florida in-person Β· virtual setup & custom builds worldwide

Two ways we help
We automate your home
Full done-for-you service β a consult, a custom local-first Home Assistant setup, professional install, and ongoing maintenance. Mostly pre-built, adapted to your home.
- South Florida on-site installs
- Virtual setup & custom development, worldwide
- We build it and keep it running β you relax
Order a device
Pre-built, flashed and tested. Pick a device, we build & ship it, you plug it into Home Assistant. Want something different? We do custom builds.
- Baby tracker Β· smart scale Β· smart-bed Β· treadmill & Tuya bridges
- Assembled, enclosed, works out of the box
- Open source, so you can inspect the code yourself
We don't just install β we build the tech
Every device and integration we offer is something we engineered and open-sourced. That's our proof.
Explore all projects βHow it works
π οΈ Done-for-you
- Consult β we learn your home & goals
- Build & install β local-first, privacy-first
- Relax β we maintain & support it
π¦ Order a device
- Pick β a device, or request a custom build
- We build & ship β assembled, flashed, tested
- Plug in β auto-discovered in Home Assistant
From the blog

Those Temu lights that never had an app? Now they can join your Home Assistant
The controller for my cheap patio lights was sending commands over 433 MHz. A $5 Tx/Rx module, a lot of patience separating my lights from every doorbell and car key in the neighborhood, and now Home Assistant both drives the lights and reacts to the physical remote. Along the way I accidentally captured a neighbor's car horn.
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My bed base just got smarter with an ESP32
The bed already spoke Bluetooth. What is flaky is all the infra around it: a remote that died, an app that can only hold one BLE connection at a time, and no way to automate any of it. One ESP32-C3, permanently connected, fixed all three.
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Why I replaced my NUT servers with an ESP32-S3
I spent years fighting Windows-only vendor software and then whole Raspberry Pis just to read one HID report out of my APC units. It turns out a single ESP32-S3 running as a USB host does the entire job, and it fits inside the UPS.
Read article βWhy Smart Home Maestro
Privacy-first & local
Your home runs on your own network. Local processing, no cloud dependency, no data harvesting.
Open source
The firmware and integrations are public β inspect them, trust them, never get locked in.
Home Assistant native
Everything auto-discovers in Home Assistant over MQTT β no fragile YAML wrangling.
Custom built
Pre-made where it fits, custom-developed where it doesn't. We build to your home, not the other way around.
Local + global
Hands-on installs across South Florida, plus virtual setup and custom development anywhere.
We keep it running
Ongoing maintenance, OTA updates and support β your automation keeps working.
Ready to make your home smarter?
Book a free consult and tell us what you want your home to do.