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?
Hey Pierre-Gilles, I have partially migrated my HA to Gladys today. Very much easier to use than HA, I love it. I have even added an integration via GitHub today using "gladys-assistant-integration". Keep up the good work.
twelve years on the same project, from a Raspberry Pi in a bedroom to a real v5, is its own answer to whether the local-first pitch is sustainable. one thing that stands out: the free tier is fully local and offline-capable, but Gladys Plus adds "an AI assistant" as a paid feature. does that assistant run against a cloud LLM, and if so how do you square that with the rest of the pitch being "runs on hardware you own, keeps working when the internet goes down"?
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.
Gladys Assistant 5 was featured in Home (170.3k followers), Open Source (68.9k followers), Internet of Things (226.9k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 66.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Gladys Assistant 5?
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