Gladys Assistant -an Open-Source Home Automation looks mostly wow!

 Gladys Assistant - a platform firstly centered only with raspberry pi, later with Linux has been growly slowly but a viable project to look into.

The idea of making an open-source with more powerful tools makes it easy, it contains

Node.js + Express server-side

A PWA powered by Preact on the frontend.

SQLite for the database

Home Automation is a serious topic. 

Gladys Assistant doesn’t joke with security and wants its users to be protected from attackers.

• Dependencies should be updated frequently

• Dependencies should be carefully chosen to avoid backdoored or abandoned one

• State of the art security measure should be implemented from day 1, and without asking the user to enter CLI commands

• The Update process should work seamlessly to encourage users to upgrade frequently and has the latest upgrades

More UI frontend and a stable backend with SQLite make it store data locally and it never shares data outside.

The architecture of Gladys Assistant

Installation for Raspberry pi,

We provide a pre-built Raspbian image with Gladys already configured.

• Download Gladys Raspbian Buster v4-rev 2
• And unzip the downloaded zip file to get a .img file.
• Clone the image on a SD card#
• Then, you just have to clone this image on the SD card you want to use with you Raspberry Pi.
• Install Etcher, plug your SD card into your computer, and clone the .img file on your SD card.

Access Gladys#

To access Gladys, open your browser on any computer on the local network your Raspberry Pi is connected. Then enter the URL http://gladys.local.

You should see Gladys web UI!