Home Assistant·smart home
Home Assistant Green
Based on 21 credible posts from the forum, Bluesky & Hacker News. 15 filtered out as bot-like or off-topic.
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Scored November 11, 2026
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Owner reviews
Overall owner mood
Owners mostly like it, with reservations: 52% of 21 reviews are positive, 43% mixed, and only 5% negative.
What owners like
Nothing two or more owners agree on yet.
What owners complain about
Nothing two or more owners agree on yet.
What owners talk about
- Display1 praise · 1 complain
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Every credible owner review, most detailed first. Bots, off-topic comments, and ones that say nothing about using it are left out.
[...] I bought a Home Assistant Green because it looked cool and now I migrated everything from my HomeKit install. [...]
Received Home Assistant Green on Saturday 11th July (2 days ago) Installed with a zigbee dongle. [...] It appeared to have reset completely before losing communications again Now all I can get is a blank onboarding window which asks me to refresh, but doesn’t go anywhere. [...]
My parents are getting an upgrade, from the homey Pro that I bought back in 2018 or so. To a home assistant green. [...]
The minimum viable setup is the Home Assistant Green. I run it on a slightly better ODroid, since the green did not exist at the time. Any heavy task, like using Ollama, are passed over to my far more main computer.
For my flaky devices, it it not a manufacturer integration, but over Zigbee. It's definitely the device as my other Zigbee devices are solid. Others have reported issues with the device in question (Aqara Temperature and Humidity Sensor) I ran the docker version on a QNAP for a long time, now on a Home Assistant Green.
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[...] Using the $99 Home Assistant Green with eMMC soldered to the board was a leap. [...]
I've had the Home Assistant Green for quite a while now and have yet to integrate it into my HomeKit setup. [...]
Got Home Assistant Green and a home assistant voice. My one big Black Friday purchase was two more home assistant voice modules and an eink screen/sensor for black Friday and I am excited to play with those lol
I got a Home Assistant Green specifically because I didn't want to fuss with it. [...]
Only if you're running your own zigbee network/hub. I've had zero issues pairing aqara sensors directly to my own skyconnect zigbee dongle plugged into my home assistant green server.
I'v been using the Home Assistant green for a while now. Time to get me a yellow and the CM5.
It's an app and a platform/server that runs on your local network. I bought the home assistant Green box. $99 and it's all set up and just works.
[...] However, I am trying to set up Home Assistant Green, and I keep running into a wall where my browser refuses to connect on port 8123. [...] Hardware: Home Assistant Green plugged via Ethernet into a Sky Hub. [...]
[...] I thought Home Assistant Green would be perfect for a noobie. [...]
[...] Links to it all is in the hardware section of this site: Home Assistant Home Assistant Green The easy-to-use, versatile, and trustworthy smart home hub for everyone.
[...] I replaced the hub with a Home Assistant Green with ZHA, and I haven't had any issues since. [...]
I got a Home Assistant Green RK3566 board today. what did I do with it, I ripped out all of homeassistant and now just run fucking Debian on it
Though it’s kind of unreal how complicated it is to set up HA and I literally do this for a living, both embedded sw and backend web dev. I just bought Home Assistant Green: and a z-wave dongle
Yeah, I've got a Home Assistant Green with a SkyConnect that I'm waiting to get setup when there's stuff to connect it to, along with a Hue Bridge and SmartThings Hub 3, I've had them for a while, but dunno if I'll stick to smart bulbs, or figure out smart switches!
[...] Using a HomeSeer G8 on a Home Assistant Green with a USB extension cable. [...] 20ft doesn't sound necessarily unreasonable though with a wall... [...]
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What the brand claims
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What owners report
“[...] I bought a Home Assistant Green because it looked cool and now I migrated everything from my HomeKit install. [...]”
“My parents are getting an upgrade, from the homey Pro that I bought back in 2018 or so. To a home assistant green. [...]”
after 7 yearsView on Bluesky“Received Home Assistant Green on Saturday 11th July (2 days ago) Installed with a zigbee dongle. [...] It appeared to have reset completely before losing communications again Now all I can get is a blank onboarding window which asks me to refresh, but doesn’t go anywhere. [...]”
“I've had the Home Assistant Green for quite a while now and have yet to integrate it into my HomeKit setup. [...]”
Common Home Assistant Green problems
Problems most owners who mention them agree on, plus ones owners are split on.
No recurring complaint pattern found across the reviews analyzed. That's a genuinely good sign — it means owners aren't converging on the same problem.