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Home Assistantvstaraassistant-public

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

Home Assistanttaraassistant-public
Score91/10039/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Home Automation#88 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars91 857191
Stars, last 30 days+694+0
Stable releases, 12 months630
Latest release2026.11.0b2 · 30 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Home Assistant scores 91/100 against 39/100 for taraassistant-public, so it is the safer default.

Home Assistant ships more often: 63 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for taraassistant-public.

Home Assistant is growing faster right now (+694 stars in 30 days).

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