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Home Assistant is for the technical user who wants total control. Not control within the boundaries someone else drew actual control. Custom user interfaces built from scratch. Automations that react to energy usage, presence, weather, time of day, and occupancy all simultaneously.
The only platform with zero vendor lock-in and zero cloud dependency. Run it on your own hardware. Own your data. Forever.
Every device. Every protocol. Every automation you can imagine. If a smart home device exists, Home Assistant can probably control it. We deploy it on dedicated hardware spec'd correctly, rack-mounted, backed up, and configured before we hand you the keys.
No cloud dependency. No outage risk.
Home Assistant runs on hardware in your home. When your internet goes down, your home keeps working. When a vendor discontinues their cloud API which happens more than you'd think your system is not affected. Automations that fire based on energy usage, solar production, presence, weather forecast, time of day, and occupancy sensors all running locally, all simultaneously, without a single cloud call.
2,000+ integrations. Built from scratch.
Z-Wave, Zigbee, Matter, Thread, Modbus, KNX, DALI Home Assistant speaks every protocol. But the real power is the custom interface. We build dashboards from scratch specific to your home, your habits, your family. Not a generic template. A purpose-built control panel designed for how you actually live. Then we document every entity, every automation, every integration so you understand what you own.
Home Assistant on underpowered hardware is a disaster waiting to happen. We size the compute, storage, and UPS correctly for your system from day one.
A Home Assistant installation is only as good as its documentation. We write it up every entity, every automation, every integration so you understand what you own.
Home Assistant has a learning curve. We flatten it. One hour of training at handover covers adding devices, building automations, and reading dashboards.
Frequently asked
Elec Reid installs Home Assistant for Melbourne homes that need local control, custom dashboards, advanced automation and integration with KNX, Apple Home, UniFi, security, lighting and audio.
Yes, when it is installed on dedicated hardware, backed up, documented and connected to properly wired systems. Elec Reid treats Home Assistant as infrastructure, not a hobby box.
Yes. Home Assistant can run the deeper local automation logic while Apple Home gives the family a familiar iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Siri interface.
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