not just a home. your haven.
A smart home that controls your lights, stores your photos, tracks your family, and replaces the cloud services you're paying for. All under your roof, on your equipment, where no one else can touch it.
Forget What You've Been Told
Right now, "smart home" usually means a voice assistant that turns your lights on and a camera that sends footage to the cloud. That's not smart. That's a remote control with a microphone. A truly smart home thinks for itself. It learns your schedule, adjusts on its own, and handles things you didn't even know could be handled, all without sending a single piece of your life to a company server.
Most people don't realize how many separate services run their digital life. Google Photos for memories. Dropbox for files. Spotify for music. Ring for security. Life360 for tracking. A password manager. A VPN. Each one charges a monthly fee, each one holds a piece of your life on their servers, and each one can change the rules whenever they want. Haven consolidates all of it into a single private system that runs in your home. One dashboard. One place where everything lives. Nothing scattered across a dozen companies who don't answer to you.
You're not the one who needs to get smarter. Your home does. That's what we built.
The Honest Truth
Google Home is convenient. Apple HomeKit is polished. Alexa understands you perfectly. We're not going to pretend otherwise. But every one of those systems is built on the same deal: you get a nice experience, and in exchange, a trillion-dollar company gets a detailed picture of your life inside your own home.
Your smart speaker listens for a wake word, but it also records what happens around it. That data gets sent to company servers where it's analyzed, stored, and used to target you with advertising.
Your camera footage sits on someone else's computers. Some companies have handed that footage to law enforcement without telling you or requiring a warrant.
If the company shuts down a product line, your devices can stop working overnight. Google has killed smart home products multiple times. You have no say in that decision.
If your internet goes down, most of your smart home stops working entirely.
Nothing is recorded, sent, or stored anywhere but inside your home. No company has a copy of your conversations, your camera footage, or your daily routine. Not even us.
Your system can never be discontinued by a company decision. You own the equipment and the software is open-source. Nobody can turn it off but you.
Haven works with products from every brand, not just one ecosystem. You're never locked into buying only Google or only Apple products ever again.
If your internet goes out, everything in your home keeps running. The lights still work. The locks still lock. The automations still run.
Haven gives you everything those platforms do, without giving up anything in return.
What You Get
Haven isn't an app. It's a platform that lives on whatever you want it to. Your phone, your tablet, your computer, a screen on the wall, a button by the door, a speaker in the kitchen. You choose how you interact with your home, and it all connects to one private system that never leaves your house.
Your phone, a tablet on the kitchen counter, your laptop, a wall-mounted screen in the hallway, or a tiny button on the nightstand. Haven works on any device you already own. There's no single app you're locked into. Open a browser and you're home.
Lights that turn on when you walk in and off when you leave. Doors that lock at bedtime. The thermostat that adjusts itself when nobody's home. Set it once, forget it forever.
See when the kids get home from school. Know when your partner leaves work. Get a notification when grandma arrives. All tracked privately, on your system, not in a corporate database.
Learn more →Use your voice to turn off the lights, play music, or check the weather. Works with speakers you might already own, or we can set up voice control that keeps everything completely private.
Setting up a smart home properly takes months of research and technical know-how. We've already done all of that. You get the finished result without the headache.
How It Works
We have a free conversation about what you'd like your home to do. More security? Automatic lighting? Climate control? We listen, then recommend the right products for your budget. You shop, or we can help you order.
We visit your home and put it all together. Every device gets connected, your screens and controls get set up, and everything gets named so it makes sense. "Living room light" not "Device 7." When we leave, it works.
No monthly fee required to keep things running. Your smart home works whether you pay us another cent or not. Subscriptions are there if you want ongoing help, remote access, or future services. But the system is yours no matter what.
Why Haven
If you use Google Home, Alexa, or Ring, those companies know when you wake up, when you leave, when you come home, what temperature you like, and who visits. They use that information to sell advertising. That's how they make money. The product isn't the smart speaker. The product is you.
Haven is different. Nothing leaves your house. We don't collect your information. We don't sell it. We don't even have access to it. Your home is your business. Read our full story →
Everything runs inside your house on your own equipment. No data goes to the cloud. No company has a copy of your daily routine. If your internet goes out, your home still works.
We charge for our time and expertise. That's it. No data selling, no advertising, no hidden fees. We tell you exactly where every dollar goes. Here's the full breakdown.
If you ever want to leave Haven, you keep everything. Your equipment, your setup, all of it. We'd rather lose a customer than trap one.
Pricing
The Haven system itself is free to use. Subscriptions are for people who want us to handle things for them. Pick what makes sense for you.
Everything you need to set up a private smart home. Free advice, free recommendations, full access to the Haven system. Do it yourself, or pay a small fee for us to come set it up.
Everything in Free, plus you can control your home from anywhere, not just when you're connected to your home Wi-Fi. You're also helping keep Haven running and supporting the open-source community.
The full experience. We come to your home and set everything up at no extra cost. You get ongoing help whenever something needs attention. Price depends on the size and complexity of your home.
Coming Soon
Extra services for Haven subscribers. One person to call for everything in your home.
Something not working? We come to you. Troubleshooting, replacements, and adjustments done in person.
Smart switch installation, new outlet wiring, and electrical upgrades through trusted licensed partners.
Leak sensors, smart water valves, and plumbing work through trusted licensed partners.
We run your entire system for you on our computers. No equipment in your home beyond the smart devices themselves.
Ready?
Start a free conversation with us. No pressure, no commitment. We'll talk about what you want your home to do and figure out the best path together.
Under The Hood
If you know what Home Assistant is, this section is for you. If you don't, everything above is all you need.
Haven runs on Home Assistant, the world's largest open-source home automation platform. Full local processing, no cloud dependency. Your instance, your hardware, your data.
Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and ESPHome. Haven works with virtually any smart home device regardless of brand or protocol. No proprietary hub lock-in.
Haven ships with production-tested dashboards, automation blueprints, device naming conventions, and Mushroom card themes. Years of iteration compressed into a ready-to-deploy package.
On-device AI for system health monitoring, adaptive automations, and self-maintenance. No cloud AI services. Your voice processing, your data pipeline, entirely local.
Every configuration, automation, and blueprint Haven creates is standard Home Assistant YAML. Export it, fork it, modify it. If you leave Haven, you keep 100% of your setup. We use the Apache 2.0 ecosystem, not a proprietary layer.
The Haven Free tier gives you full access to our configurations and blueprints. Install HAOS however you want (Raspberry Pi, NUC, VM, Docker), apply Haven's package, and you're running the same system our Haven subscribers get, minus the managed services.
If you've been running Home Assistant for years and your setup is dialed in, Haven probably isn't for you. It's designed to be simpler and more approachable, which means opinionated defaults and guardrails that someone with your experience doesn't need. But if you've got parents, grandparents, or friends who keep asking how you made your house do all that stuff, Haven is the version you install for them. Use our themes, grab our blueprints, take whatever's useful. But the managed product is built for the people in your life who will never touch YAML, and that's on purpose.