The car charges on sun and cheap power
It charges on spare solar or cheap prices, up to its limit, and pauses in a price spike. Ask for the car's charge, or have it warm the cabin before you leave.
Tesla, via TessiePowerPilot
The screens
Your whole house, on the wall.
At each door, a $199 Sonoff NSPanel Pro handles the comings and goings. Shut the garage on your way out, or ask the voice assistant from the doorway.
Front door
Garage, car and entry lights.
Back door
Spa, sauna, ice bath, garden and outdoor lights.
Like the look of that screen? We set it up to suit your house.
Request a consultEnergy and money
It chases the sun and dodges price spikes.
Home Assistant brings every energy device into one place. PowerPilot, on the same box, decides when each one runs.
Comfort that watches the price
It sets back when power is dear and uses spare solar for comfort when someone's home. Open a zone on the wall and it starts; close the last one and it stops. Wireless sensors report the real room temperature.
Daikin ductedSonoff temperature sensorsSonoff motion sensorPowerPilot
The sauna backs off in a price spike
If prices spike while the battery is low, PowerPilot switches the sauna off. It never turns it on by itself. Its temperature, session timer and light sit on a wall panel.
Sauna Wi-Fi kit, no cloud neededPowerPilot
The spa heats on your own solar
It heats on spare solar, coasts through the evening peak, and only tops up from the grid if the sun fell short. Jets, lights and a sanitise cycle are one tap each, and it keeps its own heating and running-cost stats.
SpaNET controllerPowerPilot
The ice bath chills on spare solar
It cools when the sun is paying, holds off on expensive grid power, and waits out spikes. A morning schedule has it cold for the early plunge, and you can see the water flow and whether it's cooling.
Wi-Fi chiller, no cloud neededPowerPilot
Price spike? Your home tells you
When the price spikes, the big loads switch off once, and the speakers say so at the start and again at the all-clear.
Amber pricesSonosPowerPilot
Battery and solar on the wall all day
Battery charge, solar, home use and the grid are live on the wall, with today's energy flow and the solar forecast. Your retailer's battery program stays in charge of the Powerwall; you just see it all live.
Tesla PowerwallSolar forecast
Every circuit shows its running cost
Every circuit in the switchboard can be metered. Each shows what it has cost today at the live price, so you can see which one is eating the bill.
Emporia Vue circuit monitorAmber pricesFitted by a licensed electrician
A morning brief on your phone
At sunrise: battery level, today's price band, the solar forecast, and whether the garage and front door are shut.
Home Assistant phone app
Water and garden
Watering that checks the sky first.
Rain-aware garden watering
Each garden zone waters on its own schedule, and every run is skipped if the forecast says rain, or if the rain sensor was properly wet in the last day. A splash doesn't count.
Sonoff dual tap valveZigbee rain sensorWeather forecast
A running water bill for the garden
Each day shows the garden's minutes, litres and cost at your water price. A valve with its own flow meter lets you see the water actually moving while it runs.
Sonoff dual tap valve
A valve can't be left running
A garden valve left open too long is closed for you, with a message. If a valve drops off the network you're told, and again before the morning run, so a missed watering never goes unnoticed. Water-now buttons sit on the wall panel.
Sonoff dual tap valve
Know which plants need water
A soil sensor in the pot sends a message when a plant has been dry for six hours.
Zigbee soil sensor
A leak alarm on every channel
A leak under any sink sends an urgent alert to your phone, and every speaker in the house says where it is.
Sonoff leak sensorSonos
Security and access
It locks up and keeps watch.
Goodnight, without a button
Once everyone's in bed, the front door locks and the last lights go off. A bedside double-click does it early.
Bed sensorsAugust smart lockSonoff USB switch
The garage door, from your phone
A relay works the opener and a door sensor knows if it's really open. Left open too long? Your phone hears about it.
Shelly relaySonoff door sensor
Away mode in one switch
Lights, non-essentials and the aircon go off, the door locks, and you get a summary. Forget to set it and your phone asks, with a one-tap button. Turn it off and the house welcomes you back.
Sonoff relaysTP-Link KasaDaikinAugust lock
A lived-in look while you're away
On an evening away, lights come on at random through the evening and all go off at bedtime.
Sonoff dimmerRotary dimmersSmart bulbs
It knows the sitter from a stranger
While you're away, the sitter's keypad code gets a friendly “sitter visit” message; a door opened with no known code gets a loud one. The door re-locks itself after 10 minutes.
August lock and keypadSonoff door sensor
It notices when gear goes quiet
If the lock, a door or leak sensor, a valve, the sauna or the garage controller stops reporting, you hear about it, and again when it's back.
Home Assistant
Pick the bits you'd use. The consult tells you what your house needs and what it would cost.
Request a consultLights, voice and music
Lights follow the sun. The house talks back.
An evening scene at dusk
Before sunset your lights come on, from the bedside lamps to the backyard, and the outdoor lights go off when you choose: earlier on work nights, later on weekends.
Sonoff relays and dimmersRotary dimmersSmart plugs
Good morning, lamps on
Just before sunrise the outside lights go off and the desk lamps come on.
Sonoff USB switchesSmart plug
Wall switches that do more
An ordinary wall switch becomes a smart button, so the light it controls stays connected even when someone flicks it.
Sonoff relayFitted by a licensed electrician
Bedside buttons
Click for the lamps, double-click for the room lights or to run Goodnight now.
Sonoff wireless button
Two voice assistants that know your house
Wake either one from a small speaker or the wall panel. They set the aircon, run scenes, answer questions about the house and reply in their own voices.
Home Assistant VoiceClaudeElevenLabs voices
Music in any room, by voice
“Play my liked songs” starts the playlist on that room's speakers.
SonosSpotifyMusic Assistant
Get the car ready
Say “Jarvis, get the car ready” and the car unlocks and warms up, with the climate, seat heaters and steering wheel heater on, while the garage door opens and the front door unlocks. Handy for walking out with your hands full. Just want a warm car? “Jarvis, warm up the car.”
Home Assistant VoiceTesla, via TessieShelly relayAugust lock
Home before you're in the door
The house knows when your car or phone pulls in. Have it open the garage, light the path and put some mood music on as you arrive. Want the front door unlocked too? It can ask you first, with one tap on your phone.
Car and phone locationShelly relayAugust lockSonos
It looks after itself
It fixes the usual hiccups and tells you.
Back on its feet after a restart
If a slow cloud service doesn't reconnect after a restart, Home Assistant reloads it by itself.
Home Assistant
Updates put your setup back
If an update wipes a custom device setup, it's restored automatically and you get a message saying so.
Home Assistant
Real errors reach you; noise doesn't
Genuine errors go to Telegram, with chatty devices filtered out. Every minute it checks the router, wall tablet, speakers and battery gateway, so a flaky connection shows up in the data.
Home AssistantTelegram
It knows what needs new batteries
One screen lists every battery-powered sensor from lowest to highest, with the ones to replace soon at the top.
Home Assistant
KasaKeeper looks after the rest
Maintenance schedules, warranties and trade quotes for every system in the house, on the same box. See KasaKeeper.
KasaKeeper
The Sonoff parts we use
Switches and sensors from $19.
Sonoff’s Zigbee range (a wireless standard that works without the internet) runs on the Home Assistant box, with no cloud account.
Part · what it’s forPriceFitting
Two-channel relay lights and outdoor power$29Behind the switch · licensed electrician
Dimmer dimmable lights$49Behind the switch · licensed electrician
Relay for older wiring (no neutral) lamps and outside lights$24Behind the switch · licensed electrician
USB switch desk and decorative lamps$19Plugs in
Temperature and humidity sensors real room temperatures for the aircon$19–$25Battery · stick it anywhere
Door sensors doors and the garage$19Battery
Motion sensor tells PowerPilot someone's home$19Battery
Wireless buttons bedside routines$19Battery
Leak sensor under any sink$25Battery
Dual tap valve two garden zones, with a flow meter$79Screws onto the tap
Prices from SmartHome’s Sonoff range, seen 21 Oct 2026. None of those listings states Australian approval (RCM), so the consult checks every part before it goes in. Anything in the walls or switchboard is fitted by a licensed electrician. Home Assistant runs the rest alongside them: garage relays (Shelly), smart locks (August), rotary dimmers, bulbs and plugs (TP-Link Kasa and Tuya), rain and soil sensors, sauna and ice bath controls, spas (SpaNET), aircon (Daikin), batteries and cars (Tesla) and circuit monitors (Emporia).
The software
Mostly free. A few services earn their keep.
What it doesCost
Home Assistant The system everything runs on, on a small box at home.Free
Home Assistant Cloud Secure access from anywhere, without opening up the router.US$6.50 a month
Tessie Brings a Tesla into Home Assistant.From US$6.99 a month per car
Claude The thinking behind the voice assistants.Pay per use
ElevenLabs The assistants' voices.Free tier; paid from US$6 a month
Speech and wake words Run on the box itself, so recordings of your voice never leave the house. Only the words of a request go out, to the AI and the voice service.Free
Music Assistant Spotify on the Sonos speakers, by voice.Free, plus Spotify
Prices from each service’s own pricing page, seen 21 Oct 2026, in US dollars where that’s how they charge.
Before you ask
The questions everyone asks.
What if the internet drops?
Lights, switches, sensors and the wall screens run on the box in your home, so they keep working. Live prices, the AI voices, the car, the smart lock's app and alerts to your phone wait until it's back. PowerPilot holds rather than guesses: losing data makes it do less, not more.
Where does my data go?
It runs in your house, not our cloud. Your home's history is kept on the box, and only what a service you've chosen needs goes out, like a voice request to the AI. You create your Amber token and paste it in yourself, so we never see it.
Who puts it in?
We set it up and test it with you. Anything in the walls or switchboard is quoted and fitted by a licensed electrician, who contracts with you directly.
What about after it's in?
Support is optional: our time at cost, $90 an hour in 15-minute blocks, or a care plan at $360 a year with two seasonal re-tunes, updates and an hour of fixes.
Let’s get Home Assistant running your house.
A $250 consult walks your house and works from your own Amber data, then you get one fixed price with every part itemised, for your install or later at $90 an hour. The $250 is credited in full against your install. Any wiring is quoted and done by a licensed electrician.