r/smarthome

Founded October 2011 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 8

This is the place for all your smart home product. This subreddit topics about a wide variety of smart home products and IoT's. Find help, tips, tricks and advice from our users!

Members

1,181,908

1.2M

Online now

—

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

—

no sample yet

Comments per post

—

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

—

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

—

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

—

not assessed yet

Last post

—

no sample yet

Distinct posters

—

no sample yet

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.

Watch these subreddits

Rankings go stale. Prowlo watches these subreddits daily and pings you the moment someone describes the problem you solve.

Free trial · No card

Similar by content

Communities that discuss what r/smarthome discusses.

r/homeautomation4.6M members

A place to share and discuss all things related to home automation.

95% content match
r/SmartHomeDeals7.8K members

A place to share links to home automation products that are listed at below average prices. Devices MUST be "smart" or "automatic" and also at least be relevant to someone who is looking to improve the efficiency of their home.

92% content match
r/googlehome889K members

A User community for smart speakers and displays from Google Home/Nest and their related products that use Google Assistant. Share information, tips, bugs, new features, requests.

89% content match
D

A place to discuss and exchange ideas for DIY home security solutions.

89% content match
G
r/GoogleHomeHub786 members

For all things Google Home Hub.

89% content match

Shared audience

Posters in r/smarthome also post in…

r/homeautomation4.6M members

A place to share and discuss all things related to home automation.

12% audience overlap17 shared posters
r/selfhosted855K members

A place to share, discuss, discover, assist with, gain assistance for, and critique self-hosted alternatives to our favorite web apps, web services, and online tools.

2.1% audience overlap3 shared posters
r/homelab1.1M members

Welcome to your friendly /r/homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc.

2.1% audience overlap3 shared posters
r/gamedev2.1M members

The subreddit covers various game development aspects, including programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, and marketing. It serves as a hub for game creators to discuss and share their insights, experiences, and expertise in the industry.

1.4% audience overlap2 shared posters
r/ClaudeAI1.2M members

This is a Claude and Claude Code discussion subreddit to help you make a fully informed decision about using Claude and Claude Code to best effect for your own purposes. ¹⌉ Anthropic does not control or operate this subreddit or endorse views expressed here. ²⌉ If your problem requires Anthropic's help, visit https://support.anthropic.com/ This subreddit is not the right place to fix your account issues. ³⌉ For more help, check the resources below. ⁴⌉ Please read the rules before posting.

0.7% audience overlap1 shared posters

See the full lists on similar subreddits.

r/smarthome — frequently asked

How many members does r/smarthome have?

r/smarthome has 1,181,908 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/smarthome growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/smarthome 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/smarthome?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/smarthome 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/smarthome created?

r/smarthome was founded in October 2011 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/smarthome?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/smarthome 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/smarthome for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/smarthome 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/smarthome's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/smarthome'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.

Watch these subreddits

Rankings go stale. Prowlo watches these subreddits daily and pings you the moment someone describes the problem you solve.

r/SaaS · 4m ago

“Our analytics bill tripled overnight. Actively shopping for an alternative this week — what’s good?”

Match · 86%Buying signal

Read-only · Human-in-the-loop
Prowlo never posts for you

r/smarthome Subreddit Stats — 1.18M members