I can vouch that it is freaking amazing too. My whole apartment is automated with it. Jungle noises play when I wake up, a northern loon calls precisely at sund

I can vouch that it is freaking amazing too. My whole apartment is automated with it. Jungle noises play when I wake up, a northern loon calls precisely at sundown every night, I have motion- and door-triggered alarms that email me photos of the action and can be deactivated with a repurposed TV remote. I can activate dings when people visit my small website. It can turn on my portable air-conditioner when I leave work if the temperature is high. It can tell me if my mom's house across the country loses power or drops below a threshold temperature. It reminds me to do pushups at 8:30 and puts on a techno pandora station to inspire me. It sends live traffic and weather data to a matrix screen on my fridge to help me plan my commute. It can turn on/off all my lights, stereo, and TV. All self-hosted but accessible remotely through a personal VPN. And it uses 0.01 long-term load on my Raspberry Pi 2. Oh! and when I want to change or add a feature, I can because it's all in Python 3 hosted on github. Man, I love home-assistant.