Home Assistant installers
in Melbourne.

Home Assistant is open source software that acts as the brain of a smart home. Instead of every device answering to its own manufacturer, they all report to one system that runs on a small computer in your house.

Because it is open, it talks to thousands of different devices across every major standard, including Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread and ordinary Wi-Fi. That means you are not locked into one brand, and a device you buy in five years will almost certainly still work with the system you install today.

The mainstream voice assistants are front ends for a data centre. Ask one to turn on a lamp and the request travels to a server, gets processed, and travels back. It works well until the connection drops, the service has an outage, or the company decides to change what you are allowed to do.

Home Assistant processes automations on your hardware. The lights respond even with the modem unplugged, response times are instant rather than merely fast, and the record of when you come and go stays in your house. Voice control can run locally too, so even that never leaves the building.

Home Assistant itself costs nothing, which is why plenty of people install it themselves on a spare computer. Getting it running is genuinely easy. Getting it reliable is the hard part, and it is where most self installs stall.

The work is in the unglamorous layer: a network that does not drop devices, a radio mesh with enough coverage to reach the back of the house, sensible naming so automations stay maintainable, a backup that actually restores, and automations that handle the edge cases rather than only the happy path. That is what you are paying an installer for, not the download. The audit is where that layer gets mapped for your house.

The system is yours when we leave. You get full administrator access, the documentation is public, and nothing is locked behind a licence we control. If you want to take it over yourself later, you can, and if you want us to keep looking after it, we do that too.

We think that is the only honest way to sell a system that runs your house. You should never be trapped with an installer, including us.

Every project starts with a $250 onsite audit. We spend two hours in your house, map what you have, and hand you a written plan and a fixed quote. The fee is credited back in full against any install, and the report is yours to keep even if you take it no further.

If you would rather explore before anyone visits, the configurator lets you pick the rooms and behaviours you want and puts a rough scope around them first.