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
591,884
592K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
59.1
from the last 100 posts, spanning 40.2h
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 9
sampled Sep 9
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
Tracking since Sep 9 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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)
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r/homeassistant — frequently asked
How many members does r/homeassistant have?
r/homeassistant has 591,884 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. 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?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/homeassistant yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 9; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/homeassistant?
Around 59.1 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 40.2h. 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 Sep 9. 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?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/homeassistant yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
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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