Homebridge vs Piper
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted home automation options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Homebridge with
choose an app… Home Assistant Frigate ntfy Tasmota ThingsBoard WLED EMQX Frigate NVR Companion go2rtc Zigbee2MQTT ESPHome Mosquitto HACS Home Assistant Operating System evcc Scrypted Mushroom Bubble Card OpenMQTTGateway Domoticz Companion DZVents Hyperion Domoticz Home Assistant Companion ESPEasy Sonoff DIY Tools Gladys Assistant Rhasspy Mozilla WebThings Gateway openWakeWord Button Card Awtrix Light OpenBeken Home Assistant Supervisor SmartApp Bridge deCONZ ApexCharts Card OpenRemote diyHue card-mod Mini Media Player TinyTuya Server Home Assistant Floorplan HA-Bridge ESPresense Govee2MQTT ioBroker OpenEnergyMonitor Emoncms HASS.Agent Wyoming Satellite Z-Wave JS UI OwnTracks Recorder LocalTuya openHAB Frigate Cards Python Matter Server OpenHASP Tasmoadmin AppDaemon Ring-MQTT EMHASS Domoticz Plugin Hub Zigbee2MQTT Frontend OpenSprinkler Grott Growatt Monitor Zigbee2MQTT Assistant SIP Irrigation Control Jeedom Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 OpenHAB Cloud OpenVoiceOS SmartIR Theengs Gateway Zwave-JS Server SOLECTRUS SmartHomeNG Victron Venus OS Bridge Dahua2MQTT Streamline Smart Home Dashboards Calaos ESPHome Web Tools Habapp FHEM LHA Onloc Find My Device
Compare Piper with
choose an app… Home Assistant Frigate ntfy Tasmota ThingsBoard WLED EMQX Frigate NVR Companion go2rtc Zigbee2MQTT ESPHome Mosquitto HACS MeloTTS Home Assistant Operating System evcc Scrypted Mushroom Bubble Card OpenMQTTGateway Domoticz Companion DZVents Hyperion Domoticz Home Assistant Companion ESPEasy Sonoff DIY Tools
Feature Homebridge Piper Category Home Automation Home Automation License Apache-2.0 MIT Language TypeScript C++ Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 256 MB 256 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, binary docker, binary, source GitHub stars ★ 25,444 ★ 5,066 First released 2014 2023 Replaces Apple HomeKit hubs Amazon Polly, Google TTS
Why pick each one
Choose Homebridge if… Huge plugin ecosystem Brings devices into Apple Home Homebridge details Choose Piper if… Natural-sounding offline TTS Very efficient Piper details
Frequently asked questions Is Homebridge or Piper better? Homebridge is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler easy setup. Consider Piper if its specific feature set fits your needs better.
Are Homebridge and Piper free and open-source? Yes. Homebridge is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Piper under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Homebridge and Piper with Docker? Homebridge: yes. Piper: yes.