r/homeautomation
Founded December 2010 · Public — anyone can post
A place to share and discuss all things related to home automation.
Members
4,591,054
4.6M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
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Published rules
10
3 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Sep 8 · 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 8 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
What works in r/homeautomation
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 | 36% | 316 |
| Question | 32% | 168 |
| Discussion | 8% | 69 |
| Lessons / story | 6% | 542 |
| Promo | 5% | 281 |
| Rant | 5% | 123 |
| News / link | 4% | 430 |
| Tool comparison | 4% | 319 |
Based on 72 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 45
- Top 10% score
- 840
- Text posts
- 33%
- Got no replies
- 6%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 19:00 UTC, Mon 10:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is judged case by case. Promotion goes in N/A (N/A). Post flair is required.
- No referral, affiliate, or crowdfunding links: Referral, undisclosed affiliate, and crowdfunding links are not allowed. Your post may be removed at the discretion of the mods if it attempts to get around this rule by linking to a blog or social media post that contains those links.
- No Youtube, blog, etc spam: Do not spam your blog, website, YouTube channel, company, product, etc. It will get removed and you will be banned without warning. You may post your own site but it must be directly related to home automation.
- Extra rules for vendors: If you are participating on the subreddit as a representative of a software or hardware vendor, you must follow an additional set of rules found on our wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/wiki/rules#wiki_rules_for_company_representatives.3A
- Include project details: When posting project details must be included. Posting a video or image without detail will result in a removed post and may result in a ban.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific product recommendations with reasons.
- — Provides practical, actionable advice, sometimes with humor.
- — Shares first-hand experience and long-term usage reports.
- — Directly addresses the original poster's problem with a solution.
- — Engages in detailed technical discussions or troubleshooting.
- — Highlights pros and cons, especially regarding privacy or subscription models.
What r/homeautomation's rules say about promotion
3 of 10 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No referral, affiliate, or crowdfunding links
rule 2 of 10
Referral, undisclosed affiliate, and crowdfunding links are not allowed. Your post may be removed at the discretion of the mods if it attempts to get around this rule by linking to a blog or social media post that contains those links.
No Youtube, blog, etc spam
rule 7 of 10
Do not spam your blog, website, YouTube channel, company, product, etc. It will get removed and you will be banned without warning. You may post your own site but it must be directly related to home automation.
Extra rules for vendors
rule 9 of 10
If you are participating on the subreddit as a representative of a software or hardware vendor, you must follow an additional set of rules found on our wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/wiki/rules#wiki_rules_for_company_representatives.3A
The other 7
- No abusive behavior
- No politics
- Include project details
- No reposts, karma farming, or low-effort posts
- Use the appropriate flair for posts
- No hazardous information
- Follow the Reddiquette
Read from r/homeautomation’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/homeautomation — frequently asked
How many members does r/homeautomation have?
r/homeautomation has 4,591,054 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 8. 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/homeautomation growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/homeautomation yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 8; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/homeautomation?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/homeautomation yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/homeautomation created?
r/homeautomation was founded in December 2010 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.
Can I promote my product in r/homeautomation?
r/homeautomation publishes 10 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “No referral, affiliate, or crowdfunding links”, says: Referral, undisclosed affiliate, and crowdfunding links are not allowed. Your post may be removed at the discretion of the mods if it attempts to get around this rule by linking to a blog or social media post that… 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/homeautomation for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/homeautomation 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/homeautomation's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/homeautomation'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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