r/homeassistant
Home Assistant
Founded December 2015 · Public — anyone can post
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Available for free at home-assistant.io.
Members
605,762
606K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
64.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 36.7h
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+2.3%
+14K members · ≈34d
Published rules
10
2 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Oct 13
sampled Oct 13
Distinct posters
98%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 9 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/homeassistant
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Show & tell | 38% | 1,158 |
| Lessons / story | 18% | 1,303 |
| Question | 18% | 1 |
| Promo | 8% | 1,405 |
| Discussion | 7% | 910 |
| News / link | 6% | 730 |
| Rant | 3% | 1,987 |
| Tool comparison | 1% | 1,803 |
| How-to | 1% | 10 |
Based on 73 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 628
- Top 10% score
- 2,339
- Text posts
- 22%
- Got no replies
- 6%
- Busiest windows
- Tue 20:00 UTC, Tue 02:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned.
- No spam or ads: Obvious spam (posted from a suspect account) should be reported for removal. Ads are not allowed, except in the case of the Open Home Foundation's commercial partners. This does not include posting personal projects or YouTube content related to Home Assistant or its sister projects.
- Stay on topic: Posts and comments should be about Home Assistant or its wider ecosystem, including Open Home Foundation projects, integrations, hardware, and related home automation. Content that is not related to Home Assistant may be removed.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers practical solutions or alternatives
- — Shares personal experiences and setups
- — Asks clarifying questions to understand the problem better
- — Provides technical details or links to resources
- — Engages with humor or relatable observations
- — Discloses affiliation (e.g., developer of a tool)
What r/homeassistant's rules say about promotion
2 of 10 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No spam or ads
rule 4 of 10
Obvious spam (posted from a suspect account) should be reported for removal. Ads are not allowed, except in the case of the Open Home Foundation's commercial partners. This does not include posting personal projects or YouTube content related to Home Assistant or its sister projects.
Commercial use of the Home Assistant logo is strictly prohibited
rule 5 of 10
The Home Assistant logo is trademarked and the property of the Open Home Foundation, which means it is not available for commercial use without explicit written permission from the foundation. We regard commercial use as anything designed to market or promote a product, software or service that is for sale. This includes using a Home Assistant logo generated with AI.
Removal reason shown to posters: Commercial use of the Home Assistant logo
The other 8
- No AI generated responses
- No personal attacks
- Be nice
- No reposts
- Stay on topic
- Post in English
- No engagement bait or karma farming
- No politics
Read from r/homeassistant’s published rules on Sep 9. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/homeassistant — frequently asked
How many members does r/homeassistant have?
r/homeassistant has 605,762 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/homeassistant growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/homeassistant changed by +2.3% — a gain of 14K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/homeassistant?
Around 64.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 36.7h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/homeassistant created?
r/homeassistant was founded in December 2015 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/homeassistant?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 98% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 13. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/homeassistant?
r/homeassistant publishes 10 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “No spam or ads”, says: Obvious spam (posted from a suspect account) should be reported for removal. Ads are not allowed, except in the case of the Open Home Foundation's commercial partners. This does not include posting personal projects or… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/homeassistant for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/homeassistant into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/homeassistant's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/homeassistant's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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