OpenHEMS documentation

OpenHEMS is a simple Home Energy Management System (HEMS) witch aims to switch on/off devices at home to optimize electricity consumption. To know more about use cases please refer to Usage page. It’s an Open-Source software licensed under GNU GPLv3. The software use [Home-Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) to control devices. The software is developped by OpenHomeSystem <https://openhomesystem.com/> and the open-source comunity.

Note

This project is under active development.

Contents

• Usage
  • Different devices
    • Human controlled devices
    • Automatical devices
    • Retro-action controlled devices
  • Different strategy
    • Offpeak strategy
    • Switchoff strategy
    • Emhass strategy
• Installation
  • Buy it
  • Install on Home-AssistantOS as add-on
  • Install from docker
    • Prerequisites
    • Installation
  • Install from scratch
• Installation from scratch
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Post-installation
  • Usefull documentations
• Configuration
  • Prerequisites
  • Configure HomeAssistant
  • Configure OpenHEMS with web interface
  • Configure OpenHEMS with YAML file
    • Api
    • Server
    • Strategies
    • Network
    • Localization