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Talk to your house

Lights, climate, locks, and routines through the assistant you already text — Home Assistant does the controlling, OpenClaw does the understanding.

Tools in this workflow

  • OpenClaw
  • Home Assistant

Goal: a smart home that understands “we’re leaving Sunday, act accordingly” — not just “turn off lamp two.”

  1. Bridge it — connect OpenClaw to Home Assistant’s API and expose the devices, scenes, and sensors you want conversational.
  2. Speak in outcomes — “movie time,” “the office is stuffy,” “did I leave anything on?” The assistant translates intent into the right device calls, and voice wake on your phone makes it hands-free.
  3. Gate the scary stuff — locks, garage doors, and alarms always require an explicit confirmation reply. Convenience never gets to open your front door on a hallucination.
  4. Let sensors start conversations — CO₂ climbing in the office, a temperature spike in the server closet, the washer finishing — each becomes a message, and “should I open the vents?” is a reply away.

Beyond the house, same pattern: precondition the EV and manage charging through a community Tesla skill, send and monitor 3D print jobs from chat, cast to the living-room Chromecast, or drive an e-ink dashboard that greets you with today’s art. All of it lives in Clawdiverse’s hardware wing.