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9 self-hosted Philips Hue Bridge alternatives

Philips Hue Bridge is a network hub that connects Philips Hue lights and accessories to local network and cloud services, enabling centralized control, scheduling and automations via the Hue app, remote access, and integrations with voice assistants and third‑party smart home platforms.

Alternatives to Philips Hue Bridge

Open-source platform to control smart home devices, build automations and dashboards, with broad third-party integrations and local-first privacy.

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90.1k stars38.4k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted Zigbee-to-MQTT bridge that lets you control Zigbee devices without vendor gateways and integrate them with home automation platforms via MQTT.

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15.6k stars2k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source home automation platform to monitor sensors and control switches, lights, meters, and smart home devices from a responsive web interface with alerts.

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3.8k stars1.2k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Privacy-first, open-source home assistant for dashboards, device integrations, scenes, alerts, and local-first automation with optional secure remote access.

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3.2k stars317 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open source IoT integration and automation platform with an adapter ecosystem, centralized state database, and tools for visualization and data logging.

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1.4k stars160 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

openHAB is a Java-based, modular open-source smart home platform providing a rules engine, extensible add-ons, multi-protocol device integration and mobile/web UIs.

1.1k stars471 forksEPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

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Light home automation application in Lua with web UI, Blockly scripting, WoT Thing Description API, MQTT and support for ZigBee/Z-Wave/Hue devices.

13 stars4 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

FHEM is a Perl-based open-source home automation server with a modular architecture, web frontends, and broad device protocol support.

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What replacing Philips Hue Bridge actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 8 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, MPL-2.0, MIT, EPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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