• started oct 2026
• rust
• flutter
• wasm

A home automation hub in the spirit of Home Assistant, started from scratch around a few ideas that are hard to add later. Very early, and built for one home first: a TP-Link power strip and a Windows PC. Devices come from plugins anyone can write.

what it does

• Typed device capabilities (on/off, brightness, power, volume) instead of free-form strings.
• Desired vs observed state with a reconciler: every command is pending, confirmed or failed.
• Automations checked at load, drawn as a workflow in the app, with a dry run ("what would it do right now?").
• Plugins are sandboxed WebAssembly components, signed, installed and updated from the app without restarting the hub.
• A Flutter app that draws each room as a furnished dollhouse, and turns the phone into a trackpad remote for the PC.

log

1. Oct 23, 2026 HomeMaid ships its first alpha, v0.1.0‑alpha.1.
2. Oct 18, 2026 Started HomeMaid: a home automation hub, from scratch, in Rust.