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Gladys Assistant 4.0 — A privacy-first, open-source home assistant
Gladys Assistant is an open-source home automation software. It's easy to install on a Raspberry Pi, a NAS, or any machine running Linux.
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@pierregillesl This is awesome! Visited the landing page a few times over the last few years, but never really understood what it can do. Congrats on launching 🚀
@bcye What wasn't clear on our landing page ?
You can try Gladys on our demo website too, maybe it'll be more helpful => https://demo.gladysassistant.com...
I've had the chance to meet Pierre-Gilles and worked alongside him for a couple of months. His work ethics, deep knowledge in devops and experience leading large open source projects greatly reflect on Gladys!
Congrats on the V4 PG!!
- Léo
Amazing product ! I had the chance to use it and see what's the community behind it. Great job launching it @pierregillesl
As a consumer who worries about online privacy, I'm loving the use of local SQLite database, and no remote account is required. Any home automation software which requires an account with a third party is just sketch, if that makes any sense? As if Google & Amazon don't already have reasons to invade your privacy for little to no benefit, I see this as a great way to achieve same end result. Good job!
An amazing project, congrats on launching on Product Hunt! It’s definitely worth having a look at it if you want to control devices from different manufacturers in a single UI.
As a user of Home Assistant + Room Assistant, what is the killer feature that might compel me to switch platforms?
@chrisjungmann You'll love the general philosophy we put into Gladys: a product made for everyone, not just for tech people.
We built Gladys like we were building Twitter. No SSH needed, no CLI, no file editing. Everything happens in the browser like any web product.
Backups are automatic and fail-safe.
@pierregillesl that's great! I would also love to see a product that lets someone rent or AirBnB their place and provide guests a super easy to use interface, with limited access to some of the automations.
It look awesome ! The idea is great but what about security? Does it rely on basic firewalling?
@nazim_m It's secure by design. People host it at home and data never leave their home network + of course you have to login to use it even on your local network.
Amazing! I have an unused Raspberry Pi that I may have just found a use for. Very very cool.
Nice one! I want more products that begin with "privacy-first" ranking high on PH 🙌
@new_user_41653e1176 Gladys is a Node.js server, and we distribute a Docker image.
So you can install Gladys very easily anywhere Docker is running.
Also, with a little bit more work, you can git clone the repo and install it anywhere where Node.js run.
We just don't advertise that because for most people, it's just simpler to run Gladys on a Raspberry Pi/NAS/home server that runs silently every day of the year :)
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