I was originally considering openhab, but then I discovered Home-Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/ https://home-assistant.io/) and I've been hooked since. I

I was originally considering openhab, but then I discovered Home-Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/ https://home-assistant.io/) and I've been hooked since. It ticks off a bunch of check-boxes that made it a great home OSS solution: Pro's - No internet required, can run entirely on a Rasberry Pi - Integrates with most everything thanks to the huge component library (https://home-assistant.io/components/ https://home-assistant.io/components/) - Easy to write your own Python component to integrate with new stuff - Can use existing SmartThings/etc hubs or Z-wave usb stick to talk to most anything - Fairly easy to write automations - Well written Python 3 code-base that's fairly easy to read and see what's going on yourself Con's - Definitely more for the DIY tinkerer - Need to write YAML for the automations, though a new GUI makes this easier for many cases Setting up an SMS to me when a motion sensor tripped was pretty easy, my automation was: - alias: Alerting on bedroom motion initial_state: False trigger: platform: numeric_state entity_id: sensor.bedroom_burglar above: 0 action: - service: notify.aws_sns data: message: "Bedroom alarm sensor has been tripped!" target: HassAlert I've had it running for over a year now, and it's been quite nice.