Home Assistant Green | Smart Home hub with Advanced Automation | Official Home Assistant Hardware

Home Assistant Green makes smart home setup feel simple without giving up power or flexibility. In my experience, it was a world of difference when using all my smart home devices locally, because everything responded faster, felt more reliable, and stayed under one control system instead of scattered across separate apps and cloud services. What stands out most is how well it brings devices together in one place. Lights, sensors, thermostats, and an infinite of other gear that can be managed from a single dashboard, and local control means fewer delays and less dependence on outside services. It also feels like the only long-term solution, especially if you want privacy, quick automations, and a setup that can grow with your home. Overall, Home Assistant Green is the kind of upgrade that quietly changes how you use your home every day. It’s affordable, easy to start with, and powerful enough to make local automation feel like the default way smart homes should work.

Home Assistant is amazing! It breaks down all the walled gardens between Smart Home vendors like Lutron, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, etc. Ex. I can now use the Lutron motion sensor to control all other smart home devices that could not talk to Lutron directly. It also fixes stupid bugs like the Arlo Video Doorbell no longer announcing motion on Amazon Echo devices via Alexa; I can now use Home Assistant to announce motion on the Arlo Doorbell on Echos and Sonos and other speakers around the house. It also enables truly hands-free automations like setting the correct Philips Hue lighting scenes whenever I start or stop video playback on a Zidoo video player. These examples are just scratching the surface. Home Assistant, using local control, responds much faster and more reliability than cloud-based automation platforms like Alexa and Google Home. It's also compatible with so many more devices than the cloud-based platforms. Don't let the Home Assistant's geeky reputation scare you away. The Home Assistant Green device is completely plug-and-play. Make sure you install the HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) to get the most out of HA. Amazon wants me to say something about size: the Home Assistant Green is tiny and unobtrusive, you can tug it away anywhere.

Just really started working with this tech. Easy setup and runs without issue. Hope there are not problems. But you can schedule backups.

I ended up buying this device about 2 months ago when the Alexa devices could no longer access the Sengled cloud servers. This change rendered most of my smart bulbs useless via Alexa voice control, so that’s how I landed on Home Assistant Green. I admittedly did not do enough research to truly understand what I was buying and I’ve spent the last 2 months experimenting and this ultimately was a great purchase for me. In addition to the cost of the Home Assistant Green (Which isn’t peanuts necessarily) I had to buy 4 additional antennas so HA could communicate with the various devices I have. Another cost was a powered USB hub so I could connect all 4 USB antennas at once; due to HA only having 2 USB ports. These are all relatively cheap antennas (around $20-25/a piece) but costs are slowly adding up. To be fair though, HA did discover a lot of my devices just out of the box and hardwired to my router, so if you just need the basics, then you might not need to purchase anything additional depending on your device setup. BUT, if you do want more control and flexibility with your current mixed brand smart devices, then HA with a couple of small add-ons is the way to go. The reason I would say this isn’t exactly for beginners is because it’s not necessarily a plug n’ play setup like it is setting up devices in Amazon Alexa. Depending on your devices and how easily they integrate with Home Assistant Green would determine the level of experience needed to fully leverage the automation capabilities of the Home Assistant. I’ve been able to move all of my smart home devices under one roof now through Home Assistant and utilize local control all while maintaining voice control with Alexa via the Home Assistant Cloud subscription. All in all this has been a great little investment and with some effort to learn on my part, I’ve really been able to dial in control over my home smart devices and setup some automations that are only possible through Home Assistant Green (and possibly other “like devices”).

I like to consider home assistant the god of smart home hubs, and so far it is. There’s tons of things you can do, and any compatible devices (which includes a lot) can work together seamlessly. As far as connectivity goes, it connects to your home network with Ethernet, requiring no wireless setup, and from there can run everything locally. This results in almost instant response times from automations, not to mention the amount of flexibility you get when setting those automations up to begin with. Yes, this may be a pricy way of setting up a smart home, but so far it’s been worth it.

If you want to use Home Assistant. Fully integrated and ready to go. Save time and get one of these rather than sloggiing away building your own. Good value for the money.

The HA Green works well and does a nice job of keeping itself updated. Unless you want to spend the maintaining servers, this little divide does what it needs to with minimal effort.

I have an incredibly robust smart home which is mostly Matter/Thread devices and this seemed like a good next step in my adventures to automate and create cool dashboards, while still allowing the family to use Apple Home as their frontend but after two days of fighting with getting a small sample size of my hundreds of devices onboarded, I ultimately gave up. Anyone who says this is rock solid clearly isn't leveraging Matter or Thread in their smart home setup. I have encountered very few issues with my Thread network composed of Apple TVs, Homepod Minis, and a few Aqara cameras and hubs with hundreds of endpoints and FTDs over the years but the second I set this up, it wrecked the entire Thread. TBRs started creating new networks and hopping around, tearing down communications and never healing. I removed it from the equation and everything cleared up near-instantly. Other than a few Matter bridges, I was never able to get a single Matter over WiFi device to join this using multi-admin. It's a cool concept and it works really well integrating with a few APIs and Cloud accounts, but it is very limited in what you can onboard that way, even with community support. This is absolutely not designed for the modern smart home and shouldn't even be advertising Matter support with the way it is haphazardly put together. To be fair, if my house had all Zigbee instead of Thread, this review might be written completely different. This is also far from the easiest way to set things up, so if you're not tech literate and just getting started out, steer well clear. Very disappointed tech addict over here.

After years of relying on Alexa for basic smart home control, I wanted something more capable - better integrations, real automation, and full control over my setup. Home Assistant delivers all of that and then some. It’s incredibly powerful (more than I expected), with a huge range of tools and customisation options - including raw configuration and advanced editors. I can see why some people say you need a degree to use it. I’m fairly technical, but still needed some help from ChatGPT to set up certain integrations and write custom configurations. Important: Make sure your Home Assistant Green is running Home Assistant OS, not Home Assistant Container. Mine arrived with Container, which is a stripped-back version intended for advanced users running Docker. It lacks add-on support and makes setup more complex. Home Assistant OS provides the full experience, including access to add-ons and much easier management. Since the Green is designed for HA OS, it’s a bit odd that mine came with Container. Fortunately, Home Assistant OS was very easy to install via a microSD card loaded with the correct package. The "Green" hardware itself is excellent - completely silent and runs very smoothly One of the biggest advantages is device integration and centralised management. I’ve been able to bring everything together in one place, including lighting, smart plugs, and even my Annke IP cameras (using Hikvision integration). Having everything unified in a single system makes automation far more useful than managing devices separately across different apps. The one integration I had some difficulty with was Eufy. I’m using the E340 video doorbell on battery power, which means you can’t leave the stream running continuously without draining it. To work around this, I manually call the camera.turn_on and camera.turn_off services so the camera only activates when needed. It works well once set up, but it’s something to be aware of if you’re using battery-powered devices. The only caveat is that remote access and voice assistant integration typically require a Home Assistant Cloud subscription. However, if you’re willing to invest some time, there are free alternatives. I set mine up using Cloudflare and a custom Alexa skill, so the only ongoing cost is a domain (around £8/year). I was initially planning to use Cloudflare Zero Trust option for additional protection, but it breaks too many Home Assistant integrations. Fortunately, Home Assistant has robust MFA built in. It’s been a learning curve, but absolutely worth it.

Excellent product as described!

Ho acquistato Home Assistant Green per rendere la mia casa davvero smart senza dipendere troppo da cloud esterni o app frammentate, e dopo diversi giorni di utilizzo posso dire che è uno dei migliori hub domotici per chi vuole una smart home seria, stabile e personalizzabile. Prime impressioni Il dispositivo arriva già pronto all’uso: lo colleghi via alimentazione ed ethernet, apri l’app e in pochi minuti hai il sistema operativo configurato. Questo è uno dei suoi punti di forza principali: è molto più semplice rispetto a installare Home Assistant su Raspberry o mini PC. L’interfaccia è pulita, moderna e molto più intuitiva di quanto pensassi. Rileva velocemente dispositivi compatibili in rete e permette di creare automazioni molto avanzate anche senza essere programmatori esperti. Pro ✅ Installazione semplice e veloce ✅ Ottimo per centralizzare tutta la domotica ✅ Molto stabile ✅ Privacy superiore ai classici hub ✅ Enorme compatibilità ✅ Perfetto per automazioni avanzate Contro ❌ Non è completamente plug & play ❌ Serve ethernet ❌ Zigbee e Thread non inclusi nativamente ❌ Richiede tempo per essere sfruttato bene Conclusione Home Assistant Green è probabilmente il miglior hub domotico per chi vuole una smart home seria, privata e molto più potente rispetto ai classici ecosistemi consumer. Non è il classico dispositivo “collega e dimentica”, ma se vuoi controllo totale, automazioni avanzate e una casa smart davvero intelligente, è un acquisto eccellente. Voto finale: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4,7/5) Consigliato a chi vuole fare un salto di qualità nella domotica, soprattutto se arriva da Alexa o Google Home e vuole qualcosa di molto più evoluto.

Conforme à la description, look plutôt sympa et l’implémentation de smart home est aussi paramétable que la version logicielle. BAckup prévu, mise en route rapide. Détecte facilement les appareils matter (prises, multiprises) et affiche bien les consommations énergétiques (si le matériel interfacé le fait) mois j’ai interfacé avec Merros et aucun soucis…

Wir gehören nicht zu denen, die in einem „Smart Home“ hundert Geräte mit dutzenden Entitäten verbaut haben, sondern wir haben mittlerweile einen Mix aus Fritz!, Shelly, Hue und sonstigen Geräten, die jedes für sich für uns Vorteile gegenüber anderen hatten, so daß kein System überwiegt. Genau dafür braucht man so ein geniales Ordnungssystem wie Home Assistant, mit dem man all das in ein übersichtliches, flexibles und leistungsfähiges Bedienkonzept integriert. Mit etwas Grundwissen bekommt man es schnell eingerichtet und die aktive und zahlreiche Community hat für ALLES Tips, Hilfestellungen und Antworten. Meine Erwartungen in die Möglichkeiten von Automationen, mein hauptsächlicher Kaufgrund, haben sich komplett erfüllt. Wenn man sich etwas in die Logik des Systems eingearbeitet hat, bekommt man schnell befriedigende Ergebnisse. Manches davon ist pure Spielerei, aber wer spielt nicht hin und wieder gerne! Schade nur, dass ich diesen Schritt nicht früher gemacht habe, denn von der Existenz von Home Assistent weiß ich schon lange. Es wird auch immer nutzerfreundlicher für solche wie mich, die nicht für jede Anwendung Kommandozeilen in Terminals tippen möchten, aber auch das ist sinnvoll und hilfreich. Selten hat mich in der letzten Zeit ein technisches Hilfsmittel so positiv überrascht und überzeugt.