Why

Why choose local and sovereign home automation

casasmooth makes your home more comfortable, more autonomous and more coherent — no mandatory cloud, no single-vendor lock-in, no screen to watch.

What we often see
  • ×Apps everywhere, but no overview
  • ×Personal data sent to third-party servers
  • ×A fragile system dependent on a single vendor
What casasmooth changes
  • Unified control, regardless of manufacturer
  • 100% local operation, no mandatory cloud
  • A system that evolves with you, not against you
  • Automatic reconfiguration at no cost when you reorganise your home

Home Assistant and casasmooth

Why casasmooth, when Home Assistant exists?

Home Assistant is the best home automation foundation there is, and casasmooth is built on top of it. So the question is not “one or the other”, but “where do you start from, and where do you want to get to”.

Home Assistant on its own
  • ×You get a platform ready to be configured: you name every device, design every dashboard, write every automation and check for yourself that it all holds together.
  • ×Every new device restarts the work: integrate it, place it, add it to the rules and the screens.
  • ×The result depends on the time you put in, and it is unique: nobody has tested it before you.
With casasmooth
  • The system configures itself from what you install: rooms, devices, sensors. Dashboards, the mobile app and dozens of automations are generated, validated and maintained.
  • When you add a device, the whole adapts: screens, rules, energy, security.
  • You keep Home Assistant underneath, whole, with everything it allows. You give up nothing, you just stop spending your evenings on it.
  • All of it is checked at every update and backed by a team, for a few francs a month.

What casasmooth adds, ready to use

casasmooth is a Home Assistant add-on. So it runs wherever Home Assistant runs: Home Assistant Green, Raspberry Pi, mini PC, virtual machine. On our box, or on what you already have.

Simple on the surface, formidable underneath

Home Assistant can do everything: over two thousand integrations, an automation engine with no limits, a community that has already tried it all. That's the catch. Everything is possible, so nothing is decided for you. And an automation that works “almost always” annoys you every single day.

“The light comes on when you walk in, goes off when you leave.” Ten lines, right? For a single room you actually have to reconcile four kinds of sensors, daylight, the time of day, the TV, you at the switch, a power cut and the moods of the hardware. Every rule comes from something that happened in a real home. None of them can be guessed.

What casasmooth's lighting really handles
  • Four ways to see someone. The motion detector sees you walk by, the radar sees you sitting still, the door announces an entry, the camera confirms. Each has its own delay, each its own level of trust.
  • Daylight. A margin so the lamp doesn't dither with every cloud, and a filter for the ten-franc sensors that report every second.
  • The time of day. Morning, day, evening, night: each with its own scene, color, brightness and switch-off delay.
  • Who's in charge. You switch on by hand, the automation stays quiet for thirty seconds. You switch off on your way out, it takes over again in three. A scene or coming home gets priority, then hands control back.
  • The TV. Never lights out in the middle of the film. And a Chromecast flickering between paused and buffering every two seconds doesn't make the living room blink.
  • Switching off. The lights dim first as a warning. Someone comes back? Everything stops.
  • Power coming back. Wi-Fi bulbs switch themselves back on, sensors take a minute to return. The system waits, checks, and doesn't light up an empty house at three in the morning.
  • Real hardware. A decoupled switch driving a Zigbee bulb must never actually cut the power, or the bulb goes dead. A gateway that lags doesn't hold up the rest.

Same standard for the shutters facing sun and wind, the heating that anticipates, security, temporary access, air quality, and above all energy: getting a heat pump, a battery and an electric car to dance with a dynamic tariff is no longer an automation, it's a small power plant. casasmooth delivers all of it generated, tested and re-checked at every update.

And nothing is off-limits. Home Assistant is still all there underneath: every integration, every automation, every setting, as if casasmooth weren't there.

Buying accounting software when you know accounting and your way around a spreadsheet is still a reasonable choice. Same for payroll: “salary minus deductions”, until the first part-timer, the first pro-rated thirteenth salary, the first retroactive correction. You buy the time and the mistakes you won't make. That's exactly what casasmooth brings to Home Assistant.

See the Energy page in detail, with screenshots

Digital sovereignty

Your data stays with you. No mandatory cloud, no manufacturer account, no external dependency. You keep control.

This is not theoretical. In 2022, Insteon shut down its servers overnight — thousands of connected homes became uncontrollable. Wink imposed a retroactive subscription on its existing users. And when your internet router goes down, a cloud system can't even turn on a light. casasmooth runs on your local network. If the cloud disappears, your home keeps working.

For whom?

casasmooth adapts to your situation

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Owner-occupant

You live in your home and seek daily comfort — without unnecessary complexity. You're tired of juggling between four apps that don't talk to each other.

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Renovation or new build

You're planning work and want to integrate intelligence from the start — without excessive extra cost. You don't want to be locked into a single manufacturer for the next 20 years.

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Installer or professional

You're looking for a reliable system to offer your clients, with centralised monitoring. You want a platform that doesn't make you dependent on a reseller or a third-party cloud.