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Home Assistantvsmagic-frame

Two self-hosted Home Automation projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Home Assistantmagic-frame
Score91/10052/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Home Automation#58 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars91 797511
Stars, last 30 days+674—
Stable releases, 12 months6121
Latest release2026.11.0b0 · 28 Oct 2026v1.5.10 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Other
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Home Assistant scores 91/100 against 52/100 for magic-frame, so it is the safer default.

Home Assistant ships more often: 61 stable releases in the past year, against 21 for magic-frame.

Home Assistant is growing faster right now (+674 stars in 30 days).

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