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Home Assistantvsopenvox

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

Home Assistantopenvox
Score91/10053/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Home Automation#5 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars91 801199
Stars, last 30 days+678—
Stable releases, 12 months6116
Latest release2026.11.0b0 · 28 Oct 20269.2.1 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonRuby

Which one should you pick?

Home Assistant scores 91/100 against 53/100 for openvox, so it is the safer default.

Home Assistant ships more often: 61 stable releases in the past year, against 16 for openvox.

If you want the quickest setup, Home Assistant is easier to run; openvox needs more configuration.

Home Assistant is growing faster right now (+678 stars in 30 days).

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