The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) is an award winning open source solution for smart homes and the Internet of Things. This software integrates different home automation systems and technologies into a single solution that allows over-arching automation rules and that offers uniform user interfaces. It is a pure Java solution, fully based on OSGi. The Equinox OSGi runtime and Jetty as a web server build the core foundation of the runtime.
openHAB brings together different bus systems, hardware devices and interface protocols by dedicated bindings. These bindings send and receive commands and status updates on the openHAB event bus. This concept allows designing user interfaces with a unique look & feel, but with the possibility to operate devices based on a big number of different technologies. Besides the user interfaces, it also brings the power of automation logics across different system boundaries.
openHAB runs on the following embedded platforms: Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, UDOO, and Cubietruck.
Key Features
- Vendor-neutral as well as hardware/protocol-agnostic.
- Integrates an abundance of different home automation technologies into one.
- Powerful rule engine to fulfill all your automation needs.
- Web-based UIs as well as native UIs for iOS and Android.
- Easily extensible to integrate with new systems and devices.
- Provides APIs for being integrated in other systems.
- Multi-platform.
Website: www.openhab.org
Support: Wiki, Community, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: openHAB UG
License: Eclipse Public License v2.0
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