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Home AssistantvsSIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform)

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

Home AssistantSIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform)
Score91/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Home Automation#63 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars91 854421
Stars, last 30 days+707+0
Stable releases, 12 months630
Latest release2026.11.0b2 · 30 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0—
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Home Assistant scores 91/100 against 50/100 for SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform), so it is the safer default.

Home Assistant ships more often: 63 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform).

Home Assistant is growing faster right now (+707 stars in 30 days).

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