Home automation and a local smart home that live in your network

What “home automation” actually means

Automating the repetitive things in a home: lights off on a schedule and when you leave, blinds shading before the rooms overheat, the air conditioner holding a set temperature, and on a leak, smoke or gas the system closing the valve and alerting — without waiting for someone to notice. The rules are written once and run even when no screen is on.

The problem: ten apps and a foreign cloud

Most “smart” devices ship with their own app and their own cloud. The result is fragmentation — a different interface for every brand, logic scattered across foreign servers, and dependencies that fall over with the internet or with a provider that changes its terms.

The solution: a local server and one model

HoumeOS ends the scatter: a server in your network holds the rules, the history and the permissions, and devices speak to a single model. You get a home run from one screen whose behaviour and data stay with you — no cloud account, no lock-in to a vendor.

• Lighting, blinds, climate and heating, security, gates, irrigation and energy in one interface
• Rules and history run and are stored locally — they work without internet
• Profiles with roles and PIN, a server log and sharing access without sharing an account

Whole-house automation, in stages

You can start with one corner — say solar surplus to the boiler, or the lights on a floor — and grow. The model is identical for every device, so a new room, brand or rule never means rewriting what already works.

What it looks like in practice

The screen is a kiosk with thirteen sections — energy, climate, lighting, security, scenes, history — on a tablet, wall panel, phone or computer. Rules are assembled visually (trigger → conditions → exclusions → action) without code, and emergency scenarios run on the server even when nobody is watching.