Domoticz
Home Automation System that lets you monitor and configure various devices like: Lights, Switches, various sensors/meters like Temperature, Rain, Wind, UV, Electra, Gas, Water and much more.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 61%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 3.8k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2026.3 · 2 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | C, C++, Docker, Shell |
Is Domoticz actively maintained?
Domoticz is under active development: 1521 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 108 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 54% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, 2026.3, shipped about two months ago — a current, installable version exists today.
Domoticz ranks #8 of 20 in Internet of Things (IoT), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Domoticz actually does
Domoticz is a self-hosted home automation hub designed to track and manage connected hardware such as lighting, switches, and environmental meters. It provides an interface to observe sensor data including temperature, precipitation, wind speed, UV levels, and utility consumption metrics. The project is implemented in C and C++ and is available as containerised images for standard server environments.
Best fit: It suits self-hosters looking for a lightweight, resource-efficient control panel to aggregate diverse IoT hardware locally without relying on external cloud services.
Worth knowing: The ecosystem and user interface can feel dated compared to more prominent alternatives, and configuring complex automation logic may require manual scripting.
Deployment notes
You will typically need to configure persistent storage volumes for your state data and place the instance behind a reverse proxy to handle secure TLS termination.
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