The best smart home is one you hardly notice. It is not about switching on the lights from an app on your phone; that is just the icing on the cake. The real magic happens when your home takes care of things on its own: it anticipates what you need, alerts you when something is wrong and keeps an eye on everything while you are away. Instead of you serving your home, your home serves you.
We design and build smart homes that are reliable, simple to use and truly yours. Every system runs on Home Assistant and, wherever possible, works locally rather than in the cloud: it responds instantly, keeps working when the internet is down and keeps your data inside your walls. We recommend proven technologies we know inside out, and we are just as happy to integrate the devices you already own.
Home Assistant is the heart of every system we build, bringing devices from different brands together in one app for the whole house. It runs in more than 2.7 million households, works with over 1,500 brands and services, and is backed by the non-profit Open Home Foundation, so it can never be sold or locked behind a subscription.
Lighting is the part of a smart home you use every day, so it has to work every time. For lights and wall switches we typically recommend Z-Wave, which in our experience is more reliable than Wi-Fi or ZigBee, and we also integrate established systems such as Lutron. Lights respond instantly and scenes set the right mood with a single touch.
Music in every room, controlled from your phone, your voice or your automations. Our go-to choice is Sonos, thanks to its excellent sound, ease of use and seamless integration with Home Assistant. We plan the right speakers for every space, from discreet in-ceiling speakers to a full living room sound system, and connect them into one setup. Music can follow you around the house, play softly in the morning, or pause automatically when the doorbell rings.
We believe home entertainment should be simple. Instead of relying on each TV's own smart features, we use the TV purely as a display and pair it with a streaming device such as Apple TV and one simple remote. It is fast, intuitive and especially convenient for families who already use iPhones.
A small home server takes care of your files, backups and camera recordings, stored safely at home rather than in the cloud. We typically recommend Synology NAS devices, which are reliable, quiet and easy to manage, so your camera footage stays private and is always at hand.
Every home is different, and many already contain devices from various brands. We integrate what you have, from infrared-controlled equipment via Broadlink to Tuya-based devices controlled locally. When no ready-made solution exists, we build our own. We prefer simple, robust integrations that keep working reliably through software updates, so your home does not break the next time something gets updated.
Remember the sci-fi movies where the captain simply talks to the ship's computer? That is no longer science fiction. We connect your home to the AI assistant you already use, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, so you can just ask “Is the garage door closed?” or “Make the house cozy for the evening.” We can even turn Home Assistant itself into your personal AI agent that understands your home and takes care of it.
See where your energy goes, in real time. The energy dashboard shows your consumption, solar production and battery status at a glance, and tracks your costs over days, months and years. Your home can also act on it, for example by running the dishwasher or charging the car when electricity is cheapest, and by letting you know when something uses more power than it should.
OCTOPUS U.S. Operations LLC
Bradenton, Florida
Global office: +1 (650) 252-1275
E-mail: info@octopus-us.com
