Home Assistant

Home automation platform.

★ Stars91.6k91,593 on GitHub
Last commit19 Oct 2026
LicenceApache-2.0SPDX, from the repository
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From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026.

Home automation platform.

Who it suits

  • Smart-home beginners on a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 (2 GB RAM minimum), or anyone with a spare PC, VM or container host, per its install guide.

From home-assistant.io/installation, checked 19 Oct 2026.

Self-hosting requirements

Runs withPython, Docker
DockerYes
awesome-selfhosted lists Docker as a way to deploy it.
ARM / Raspberry PiYes
Official install guide for Raspberry Pi 4 or 5.
Memory (RAM)2 GB minimum on a Raspberry Pi

Sources: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/software/home-assistant.yml · home-assistant.io/installation, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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