Home Assistant¶

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that aggregates devices, automations, and dashboards—often self-hosted. In this vault it appears as a consumer of telemetry (e.g. MQTT), a convenience UI, and sometimes a non-authoritative view relative to long-term farm records; see analyses on system of record boundaries.

Official project: Home Assistant (external).

Why an entity page

• Cited in field telemetry, LoRa/MQTT explorations, homelab, and off-grid smart home topics; distinct from the concept pages for specific radio stacks or protocols.

Related in this wiki

• Topic: Smart home — Matter, Thread, and Home Assistant AI
• Topic: LoRa, MQTT, and gateway bridges
• Topic: Homelab, self-hosting, and edge narratives
• Source-note (example): Home Assistant — LoRa long-range sensors / MQTT exploration
• Analysis: Telemetry system of record — boundaries and authority
• Analysis: Field telemetry reference architecture — homestead + 120-acre farm

Epistemic note: Product features change release-to-release; operational claims in the wiki should cite versioned docs or source-notes when precision matters.