The Smart Home by e154

software package for automation

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Verdict 57/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 1/5 setup difficulty Last release 5 months ago

Self-host The Smart Home on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
57 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
1 /5
One-click deploy
GitHub stars
98
13 forks

About The Smart Home

From the project's README at github.com/e154/smart-home. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/e154/smart-home) [](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0) [](https://t.me/SmartHomGo)

With the help of the software package Smart Home you can control many devices. Distributed network of devices based on software package Smart Home has no geographical boundaries and allows manage devices anywhere in the Internet through a system of nodes - microservices. You will be able to interact with these devices as if they were on your local network. Create scripts and reactions to events in the web interface of the configurator through a flexible scripting system.

The system does not require a permanent connection to the Internet, it is completely autonomous and has no dependencies on e

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
52
maturity
100
community
62
security
70
sustainability
58
adoption
16

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 98 github.com/e154/smart-home
GitHub forks 13 github.com/e154/smart-home

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age9.3 yearssince Jan 2017
Last commit5 months agoNov 30, 2025
Releases shipped20last: 5 months ago
Funding links1declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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