Smart Home

Control your home with words

Chalie can connect to smart home platforms and let you control lights, switches, thermostats, locks, and other devices through natural conversation.

This capability depends on your hardware and the smart home integration you’ve configured. Chalie acts as a bridge between your voice or text commands and your home automation system.

Supported platforms

Smart home integration is currently in active development. The roadmap includes support for:

• Home Assistant — the most commonly self-hosted platform, with broad device support
• Matter / Thread — the open protocol standard supported by Apple, Google, Amazon, and others
• Philips Hue — direct integration for lighting control
• MQTT — a generic protocol used by many DIY setups

Check the Roadmap for the current integration status.

Example commands

Once configured, you can control your devices conversationally:

• “Turn off the living room lights.”
• “Set the thermostat to 20 degrees.”
• “Lock the front door.”
• “Dim the bedroom lights to 30%.”
• “Turn on the fan in the office.”
• “What’s the current temperature in the kitchen?”

Scenes and routines

Smart home control pairs well with Scheduling for automated routines:

• “Every evening at 7pm, turn on the living room lights and set the thermostat to 19 degrees.”
• “When I say goodnight, turn off all the lights and lock the doors.”

Privacy note

Smart home commands are processed locally on your Chalie instance. Commands are sent directly to your home automation platform — no third-party cloud service is involved in the control path.

Getting set up

Smart home setup requires configuring your integration in Chalie’s settings. The exact steps depend on which platform you’re using. See the project documentation for platform-specific setup guides.