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The Open-Source Brain Behind Your Smart Home

Home Assistant is the world's leading open-source home automation platform. It runs locally in your home, integrates over 2,500 brands and devices, and keeps your data completely private — no cloud dependency, no subscriptions, no vendor lock-in.

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Home Assistant dashboard from a Bayora install — climate, lighting, and blinds control across rooms, on a tablet

WHY WE BUILD ON HOME ASSISTANT

Our experience with Home Assistant

Home Assistant is the foundation of every whole-home project we deliver. We deploy it on dedicated hardware inside the residence, configure custom dashboards for each family member, and build automations that adapt to daily routines. From simple lighting schedules to multi-system orchestration across climate, security, blinds, and entertainment, it is what we build on in Dubai apartments and villas.

Fully Local Control.

Everything runs on hardware inside your home. No cloud servers, no internet dependency. Your automations keep working even when the Wi-Fi goes out.

2,500+ Device Integrations.

Works with virtually every smart home brand — Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread devices all managed from one platform.

Custom Dashboards.

Beautifully designed control panels for phones, tablets, and wall-mounted displays. Every family member gets a personalized interface.

Advanced Automations.

Complex rules that go far beyond 'if this then that'. Combine time, presence, sensor data, and device states to create truly intelligent routines.

Complete Privacy.

Your data never leaves your home. No cloud accounts tracking your habits, no third-party servers storing your camera feeds.

Future-Proof Architecture.

Open-source software with a massive global community. Regular updates, new integrations monthly, and zero risk of the platform being discontinued.

5-bedroom Arabian Ranches villa with smart wall tablet showing a home dashboard at golden hour

A RECENT HOME ASSISTANT BUILD

5-bed villa, Arabian Ranches

Home Assistant Yellow as the brain. 6 climate zones, 84 light points, 12 motorized blinds, 8 cameras, 2 wall tablets.

AED 42,000. Done in 14 days. One automation: 'Movie night' dims hallway lights, lowers cinema blinds, switches the AV system to the projector, and sets the AC to 23°C. The owner taps one button.

Hassan A.

“We considered KNX. The wiring quote was triple. Home Assistant does everything we wanted, and we can add to it ourselves whenever we want. Best decision.”

Hassan A. · Arabian Ranches villa owner

WHAT WE TYPICALLY DEPLOY WITH HOME ASSISTANT

HardwareHome Assistant Yellow / Green
Climate integrationsSensibo, Aqara, Tado
LightingPhilips Hue, Aqara, Shelly
Wall tabletsLenovo Tab 7", iPad mini, Sonoff NSPanel
VoiceApple HomePod, Google Nest, Alexa
Setup time1-3 days for whole-home

HOME ASSISTANT VS THE ALTERNATIVES

ConcernHome AssistantKNXCrestron
Setup costLowerHigherHighest
Wireless OK?YesNo (wired)Mostly wired
Vendor lock-inNoneLowHigh
Best forRenters + new techNew villa buildsCustom luxury

BUILDING ON HOME ASSISTANT?

Not sure Home Assistant is right for your home?

Tell us what you want to control. We'll tell you honestly which system fits.

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We deploy Home Assistant for Smart AC, Lighting, Security, Audio Visual, Blinds, and Whole-Home.

HOME ASSISTANT PROJECTS

Recent Home Assistant builds.

Kitchen in a California Village townhouse with warm LED strip lighting under the wall cabinets and on the open shelves

California Village · Townhouse

Townhouse Smart Home - California Village

A three-bedroom California Village townhouse pulled onto one local hub: presence sensing in seven positions, integrated lighting, in-wall control tablets and exterior camera coverage recorded on site.

Two Aqara no-neutral smart switches beside an Aqara W400 thermostat running the VRF zone, on a hallway wall in an Al Barari villa

Al Barari · Villa

No-Neutral Switch and Climate Retrofit - Al Barari

A finished Al Barari villa with no neutral wire behind a single switch plate: 44 smart switch positions, twelve climate zones off a central VRF system, and bathroom exhaust fans that run on humidity instead of memory.

Living room of a Dubai Creek Harbour apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows over the creek and skyline

Dubai Creek Harbour · Apartment

Thirty Devices, One Dashboard - Dubai Creek Harbour

An apartment in Dubai Creek Harbour running more than 30 smart devices across six different apps, pulled onto a single local dashboard with an iPad on the wall and voice control on top.

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Guides involving Home Assistant

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The Company That Built Your Smart Home Is Gone

The number on the sticker inside the cupboard rings out, and nobody can tell you what is in there. Here is how to find out what you own, whether anyon…

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Turning the Wi-Fi Off at Night for the Kids, Without Taking the House Down With It

A bedtime Wi-Fi schedule is easy to set and easy to get wrong. What happens to your AC schedule, your cameras and your hub when the network goes quiet…

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Open electrical distribution board in a Dubai villa under construction, with DIN-rail KNX modules and a green KNX bus cable coiled beside them

What a KNX Server Actually Does, and When Your Villa Doesn't Need One

There is a line on your KNX quote called a server, it is one of the expensive ones, and nobody explained it. KNX is decentralised, so the lights work…

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A Dubai apartment living room at golden hour with a phone on the coffee table showing the DEWA Smart Living consumption graph, a wall-mounted smart AC controller, and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the Business Bay skyline

Why Your DEWA Bill Jumped This Summer, and How to Find the Culprit

Your Dubai electricity bill doubled and you don't know why. Before you spend a dirham on gadgets, here is how to find the room, the setting, or the ha…

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A ceiling-mounted white presence sensor above a warm, lived-in Dubai apartment living room at golden hour, with a corner-mounted motion sensor near the wall, a person reading still on the sofa while the lamps stay on, Dubai skyline through floor-to-ceiling windows.

How Motion and Presence Sensors Actually Work in a Dubai Home

Your motion sensor turns the lights off while you are sitting perfectly still, and you end up waving an arm at the ceiling. That is not a fault. It is…

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Smart Water-Leak Detection for Dubai Apartments: The AED 99 Sensor That Stops the AED 22,000 Problem

A washing-machine hose, a corroded water heater, or a blocked AC drain can flood a Dubai apartment in a night and put your deposit and the neighbour b…

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Frequently asked questions

What is Home Assistant and why do you use it?+
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that runs locally in your home. We use it because it integrates with more devices than any other platform, runs without internet, keeps your data private, and never locks you into a single brand.
Do I need technical knowledge to use Home Assistant?+
Not at all. We handle all the setup, configuration, and automation programming. You interact with it through simple, custom-designed dashboards on your phone or tablet — just tap to control anything.
Can Home Assistant work with my existing smart devices?+
Almost certainly. Home Assistant supports over 2,500 integrations. If you already have smart bulbs, cameras, or other devices from any major brand, we can bring them all into one unified system.
What happens if Home Assistant stops being supported?+
Home Assistant is open-source with over 1 million active installations worldwide and a large developer community. It receives updates every month. It's one of the most actively maintained smart home platforms in existence.
How much does a Home Assistant installation cost in Dubai?+
A basic Home Assistant hub setup starts from AED 2,500. A full whole-home integration with automations, dashboards, and multi-system control typically ranges from AED 15,000 to AED 80,000+ depending on the size and scope of the project.

CONSIDERING HOME ASSISTANT?

We'll tell you honestly if it's the right fit. Sometimes it isn't.

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