Custom home automation

Your home.
Your rules.

I design and build custom smart home systems — heat, irrigation, security, lighting, and media — unified in one dashboard that runs entirely in your house.

Custom
BUILT FOR YOU
100%
LOCAL CONTROL
40+
PROTOCOLS
$0
RECURRING FEES
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Smith Residence

3:07
Saturday, April 18
45°F Partly cloudy · Cathlamet
Heat: Idle (5 zones @ setpoint)
Security: Armed — Away
Plex: Online
Home Assistant: Connected
Irrigation: Zone 2 running · 8:14
Home
Zone 2 watering
HA
PLEX
Plex
Your library · 4.2 TB
LOCAL
Netflix
Continue watching
4K
prime video
Prime Video
My list
4K
YouTube
Subscriptions
4K
jellyfin
Jellyfin
Media server
LOCAL
hulu
Hulu
Live TV
HD
Disney+
Disney+
Recommended
4K
Spotify
Recently played
MUSIC
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Features

Built for the home,
engineered for control.

Everything you need to automate, monitor, and orchestrate your space — in one private hub you own.

Customizable dashboards

Design tile-based control panels with drag-and-drop. Per-room views, custom themes, live camera feeds, and real-time sensor graphs.

Powerful automations

Trigger lights on sunset, drop the heat when you arm the alarm on your way out, cut standby power when everyone's asleep. Visual editor or YAML — your call.

Local & private by default

Your data stays in your house. No cloud lock-in, no subscriptions to unlock features, no vendor pulling the plug on your devices.

Voice assistant

Built-in local voice with wake-word detection, or plug in Alexa and Google. Talk to your home without sending a recording to a data center.

Energy monitoring

Track every watt. Solar production, battery charge, EV charging, appliance-level draw — with hourly and daily breakdowns.

Scenes & schedules

"Movie night" dims the lights, lowers blinds, and arms the fireplace. "Morning" opens curtains and queues your playlist. One tap. Or zero.

Presence detection

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, mmWave sensors — know who's home without wearing a tracker. Personalized automations per person follow.

Secure remote access

Check cameras, unlock the door, or trigger scenes from anywhere — through your own encrypted tunnel or VPN. You hold the keys.

Extensible add-ons

Node-RED, ESPHome, Zigbee2MQTT, Frigate NVR, AdGuard, MariaDB — install with one click. Thousands of community integrations.

Automations

Your home, working together.

The magic isn't in individual devices — it's when they start cooperating. One tap arms the house and dozens of things happen.

Arm "Away" → thermostat drops 6°

Why heat an empty house? Warms back up before you walk in.

Last one out → lights off, blinds down

No more "did I leave the kitchen light on?" — the house handles it.

Away mode arms cameras and motion alerts

Phone buzzes the moment something moves. Not a drill.

Water heater flips to vacation mode

Drops to 110°F while you're gone, heats back up 30 min before arrival.

EV only charges on cheap overnight rates

Unless solar is producing — then it fills the battery for free.

Room empty 10 min → HVAC damper closes

Stop conditioning rooms nobody's in. Sensor-driven, not timer-driven.

Sunset → porch light on, shades close

Your house greets you at the door. Automatically, every night.

Leak detected → valve slams shut

Flooded basements are expensive. A $15 sensor pays for itself once.

Bedtime scene: doors locked, thermostat set, done.

One routine replaces the nightly lap around the house.

Cost savings

Automations pay for themselves.

A typical setup with setback thermostats, scheduled lighting, and away-mode controls recovers its hardware cost within the first year — and keeps saving every month after.

$600+
avg. annual savings
18%
heating & cooling
32%
lighting energy
Protocols

Speaks every language
your home does.

From the 40-year-old smoke detector to the Matter thermostat you unboxed last week — your system will speak to them all. Native integrations or standard USB / Zigbee / Z-Wave sticks, plus RTL-SDR and IR/RF adapters for the weird stuff.

Native integration
USB / serial stick
Adapter or bridge required

Wireless Mesh Local radio

Zigbee 3.0 Z-Wave / Z-Wave LR Thread Matter (Wi-Fi / Thread) Bluetooth Mesh LoRaWAN Wi-SUN

IP & Wi-Fi Network

Wi-Fi (any device) MQTT ESPHome HTTP / REST WebSocket CoAP / Shelly UPnP / DLNA mDNS / Bonjour SNMP SSDP

Bluetooth Short-range

BLE (passive scan) BTHome ESPresense proxies iBeacon / Eddystone Classic Bluetooth

Wired & Industrial Building

KNX Modbus TCP / RTU 1-Wire DMX / Art-Net DSMR smart meters BACnet M-Bus EnOcean

RF & Legacy Retro-compatible

433 MHz (RFXtrx / Sonoff RF Bridge) 868 / 915 MHz Infrared (Broadlink / ESP-IR) X10 Insteon Lutron Caseta / RA2 Somfy RTS Nexa / Proove / FS20

Voice & Ecosystems Cross-platform

Apple HomeKit Google Home / Cast Amazon Alexa SmartThings Hubitat Tuya / SmartLife IKEA Tradfri Philips Hue LIFX Sonos

Video & Audio Media

ONVIF cameras RTSP / RTMP Frigate NVR (AI) Plex / Jellyfin / Emby AirPlay 2 Squeezebox / LMS Snapcast

Cloud & APIs Bridged

MQTT brokers Webhooks IFTTT / Zapier Node-RED flows OAuth2 cloud APIs Telegram / Discord Email / SMS / Pushover
How it works

One hub. Every device.

Your automation hub runs on a tiny PC or dedicated appliance tucked in a closet or utility room. It bridges wireless radios and IP protocols into one unified state machine — then lets you automate across them.

I install the hub, commission the radios, onboard the devices, and build the dashboards. You end up with no vendor lock-in, no yearly fees, and hardware you own.

User interfaceWeb · Mobile · Voice
Automations & scriptsTriggers · Conditions · Actions
Automation coreState machine · Event bus
Integrations2,000+ modules
Protocol adaptersZigbee · Z-Wave · Matter · MQTT · …
Physical devicesSensors · Lights · Locks · Cameras
Let's talk

Ready to automate your home?

Every house is different. Tell me what you want it to do — I'll design a system that fits your home, your devices, and your budget.

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