The control plane for a home that runs itself.
Groups, rules and triggers for your lights, switches and sensors — running on your own Mac or Linux box. Your home's brain stays on your hardware, not in someone's cloud.
Connect your accounts once. automater does the rest.
No demo data and no guesswork: the setup wizard finds what's on your network, signs in to each brand directly, and reads your real devices from it.
Scan
Listens on every smart-home protocol at once — HomeKit, Matter, Hue, Kasa, ESPHome — and shows exactly what answers.
Connect your accounts
Press the Hue bridge button, sign in to My Leviton or TP-Link, enter a HomeKit code. Passwords are used once and never stored.
Choose your devices
Devices come straight from each connection — Hue lights by room, every Leviton switch on your account. Pick, and you're done.
The gear you already own.
Everything a smart home should do — locally.
Real triggers
Motion, schedules, sunrise and sunset, “garage open for 2½ hours” and phone presence from your Wi-Fi — with timers and conditions.
Drag-and-drop rules
Drag a sensor, a time or a sunset into When, groups and alerts into Then. The rule reads back to you as a sentence.
Runs on your devices
Rules your Hue bridge or Kasa plugs can run are pushed into them, so they keep working even when automater is off.
Network health
Reads your UniFi settings and tells you exactly what to change for reliable IoT — band steering, PMF, mDNS across VLANs, weak signal.
Alerts
“Garage open 30 minutes” as a native Mac notification — or in your browser, or to the iPhone app.
Groups & a visual map
Build rooms from any mix of brands and wire them on a map. One tap for the whole room.
Local HomeKit & Matter
Pair HomeKit accessories with their setup code, or Matter devices shared from Alexa, Google or Apple Home.
Siri & Alexa
Your groups appear in Apple Home and in Alexa (as a local Hue bridge) — no skill, no cloud.
Garage doors
ratgdo / ESPHome openers: open, close, and alert on how long the door has been open.
UniFi aware
Add a UniFi key and every device shows its name, IP, access point and VLAN — and setup finds devices on other VLANs too.
Phone pairing
Scan a QR code to pair the iPhone app or another browser. Everything else on your network is locked out.
Your keys, your box
Every credential is encrypted at rest on your hardware. Backups never include keys. Factory reset any time.
A real Mac app, living in your menu bar.
- Native window with standard menus and shortcuts — ⌘1–5 to switch views, ⌘, for Settings.
- Start, stop, restart from the menu bar, with live status, your groups and recent activity at a glance.
- Starts at login and keeps your home running when the window is closed.
- Factory reset in one click — a backup is saved first.
Let Claude run your home.
- Open Settings → AI agent and copy the command. For Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http automater http://localhost:8800/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer …" - Give Claude the skill: SKILL.md — save it to
~/.claude/skills/automater-house/, or upload it in Claude Desktop. - Ask: “List my automater groups.” Prefer to stay offline? Chat in-app with Ollama or LM Studio instead.