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SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform)vssmart-watering-system

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

SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform)smart-watering-system
Score50/10028/100
Rank in category#63 of 104 in Home Automation#101 of 104 in Home Automation
GitHub stars4212
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months01
Latest release—v1.0.0 · 22 Mar 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
License—MIT
Main languagePythonJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform) scores 50/100 against 28/100 for smart-watering-system, so it is the safer default.

smart-watering-system ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform).

If you want the quickest setup, SIP (Sustainable Irrigation Platform) is easier to run; smart-watering-system needs more configuration.

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