Gladys Assistant is a free, open-source smart home platform that runs on your own mini-PC or Raspberry Pi. Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and 90+ community integrations, a phone-first dashboard, no YAML, and it keeps working when the internet goes down.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Pierre-Gilles, and I've been building Gladys Assistant since 2013, when it was a side project on a Raspberry Pi in my bedroom.
The idea hasn't changed: your home should be run by a machine you own, in your house, that keeps working when the internet goes down or when a company changes its plans.
Gladys Assistant 5 is our first major version in almost six years:
🏠 A new interface designed for the phone in your pocket and the tablet on your wall
🧩 92 community integrations. Anyone can build one, in any language, and publish it on GitHub
📡 Zigbee, Z-Wave and Matter built in, plus Hue, Shelly, Sonos, Kasa, Reolink and more
🧠 Scenes with triggers, conditions and if/then/else, from a visual editor, no code
The software is free and open-source. An optional subscription, Gladys Plus, adds encrypted remote access, Alexa and Google Home, backups and an AI assistant. It's how the project is funded: no investors, no ads.
Most of our users are in Europe today, so I'd love to hear from you: what would you need to run your home on Gladys?
About Gladys Assistant 5 on Product Hunt
“Private, self-hosted smart home, no YAML required”
Gladys Assistant 5 launched on Product Hunt on September 29th, 2026 and earned 92 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Gladys Assistant is a free, open-source smart home platform that runs on your own mini-PC or Raspberry Pi. Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and 90+ community integrations, a phone-first dashboard, no YAML, and it keeps working when the internet goes down.
On the analytics side, Gladys Assistant 5 competes within Home, Open Source, Internet of Things and GitHub — topics that collectively have 507.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Gladys Assistant 5 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Gladys Assistant 5?
Gladys Assistant 5 was hunted by Pierre-Gilles. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Gladys Assistant 5 including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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