Best of open source smart home: Home Assistant vs OpenHAB

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Home-Assistant.io

Winner: Home Assistantalthough we see how both products are attempting to be user-friendly in the initial setup, things are still to be improved compared to commercial smart hubs. Home Assistant being slightly ahead as it is possible not to use the command line at all when installing and setting up. Add-ons are handled equally well, but a little bit better by Home Assistant due to extensive documentation and one-click installation process. Initial configuration, however, is managed slightly better by OpenHAB as you will need to understand YAML to do any more-than-basic configuration with Home Assistant.

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openHAB

Remote access: (winner OpenHAB). The ability to access your smart home remotely is useful when you need to see the temperature in the house, check the status of lightings, or switch on some smart plugs. We consider OpenHAB a winner due to the ease of using myopenHAB.org to use an openHAB Cloud instance to which openHAB creates a tunnel connection and which forwards all requests through this tunnel. In addition, you can use a VPN or reverse proxy. Home Assistant gives you similar functionality but the installation is more complicated. DuckDNS + Lets Encrypt add-on is the best and the most convenient way to expose Home Assistant, but it still more complicated the openHAB solution.

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