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Home Assistant / Nabu Casa Home Assistant Green
A plug-and-play Home Assistant hub for local smart-home control, dashboards, and automations without making every switch report to a cloud landlord.
The smart-home box for people who want their house to be useful without signing the deed over to Alexa, Google, or a subscription trap.
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~$99, retailer-dependent
Best for
Smart-home users, privacy-minded tinkerers, Home Assistant newcomers, local automations, dashboards, sensors, and anyone tired of cloud-dependent home plumbing.
Skip if
You want dead-simple Alexa setup, have no interest in tinkering, or already run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, mini PC, or server that works fine.
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