Meet Gladys, a Raspberry Pi-Powered Intelligent, Open-Source Home Assistant

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Meet Gladys, an open-source program designed to become the only intelligent home assistant you’ll ever need, backed by the tiny and powerful Raspberry Pi single-board computer.

Gladys is the creation of Node.js expert and backend software engineer Pierre-Gilles Leymarie, the guy who lost his MacBook Pro laptop earlier this summer and decided to replace it with a Raspberry Pi 3 computer, which he built using an old wireless mouse and USB keyboard, along with a 22-inch HDMI LCD, for one week.

Gladys is designed from the ground up to act as a central hub that interacts with a variety of smart, IoT (Internet of Things) devices you may own, from smart speakers and smart light bulbs to coffee machines and motion sensors. It supports Philips Hue lamps, Sonos speakers, Fibaro motion sensors, Mi-Light lamps and Wi-Fi bridg… (read more)

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