Manor OS
A household operating system built on Home Assistant.
What happens when you stop treating home automation as a pile of individual tricks and start thinking about it as a coherent system. Local-first, no cloud dependencies, everything on the LAN.
Tech stack
How it works
- Voice pipeline. Local wake-word detection feeds Faster Whisper for speech-to-text via the Wyoming protocol. Intent resolution and action dispatch stay entirely on-device — no cloud, no latency spike.
- Hub kiosk. A living room tablet running a custom Home Assistant dashboard. Current presence, active media, upcoming calendar events, and service status at a glance. Replaces the 15 separate apps that used to do this badly.
- SMS bridge. Family messaging routed through the hub, so anyone in the house can send and receive without needing a smartphone or a specific app.
- Presence detection. Combines network device tracking and BLE scanning to determine who's home. Lighting, heating, and media preferences shift automatically based on who's present.
- Magic buttons. Physical ESPHome buttons mounted around the house for common actions. One press does what a voice command or three app taps would otherwise require.