Gladys Assistant 5
Private, self-hosted smart home, no YAML required
Details
- External ID
- 1263586
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Gladys
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 89
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9822268548214668
- Tags
- Home, Open Source, Internet of Things, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Gladys Assistant is a free, open-source smart home platform that runs on your own mini-PC or Raspberry Pi. Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and 90+ community integrations, a phone-first dashboard, no YAML, and it keeps working when the internet goes down.
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal and family life organizers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted smart home hub for home automators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Supporting local IoT protocols (Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter) across diverse hardware dongles with 90+ physical integrations requires deep embedded systems, local networking, and device driver expertise.
What it would actually take: A full smart home hub like Gladys runs on Node.js/Docker with native driver bindings for serial ports (Zigbee2MQTT, Z-Wave JS) and implementation of the Matter/Thread IP-based protocols. The difficulty lies in hardware abstraction across hundreds of quirky hardware vendor profiles, network mesh topology handling, and robust offline state synchronization. This requires IoT firmware engineers and systems programmers with deep protocol knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 31 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 32 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 231 days after the earliest competitor.
- Remote Access for Home Assistant Without Nabu Casa · hn · 2026-04-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- panasonic-doorphone-connect · github · 2026-09-17 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Selora · hn · 2026-06-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Zazu · ph · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Smitty · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- SmartHomeXa · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- PHNTM One · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- home-assistant-lidlplus · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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