LHA
Light Home Automation application that is fully extensible using Blockly, HTML or Lua. It includes extensions such as ConBee, Philips Hue or Z-Wave JS.
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Still maintained? Yes: 8 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.2.1 (Dec 2024).
Comparisons in Internet of Things (IoT): Home Assistant Cloud alternatives, Nest alternatives.
At a glance
LHA quick facts
- Health score
- 26/100 STALE
- Stars
- 13
- Last commit
- 12 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.2.1, Dec 2024
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "The lha application allows to enrich your existing gateway such as the Hue bridge record and display historical device values such as temperature interact between incompatible protocols such as ZigBee and Z-Wave compose advanced automations using Blockly scripts design web views using HTML and Vue.js create your own Lua extensions."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
LHA scores 26/100, #19 of 20 in Internet of Things (IoT): 8 commits in the last 90 days earn 9.3 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.2.1, 1.8 years ago) earns 2.2 of 25, 13 stars add 4.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 25.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 9.3 / 35
8 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 2.2 / 25
v0.2.1 released 1.8 years ago
- Stars 4.6 / 20
13 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 8
- Last 90 days
- 27
- Last 12 months
- 12 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 20 tools in Internet of Things (IoT) by health , between WebThings Gateway (#18) and FHEM (#20) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Lua |
| Latest release | v0.2.1 · 1.8 years ago |
| Stars | 13 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | javalikescript/lha ↗ |
LHA vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with LHA (Internet of Things (IoT)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Assistant | 100 | 92k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| evcc | 95 | 7.5k | MIT | yesterday |
| Domoticz | 94 | 3.8k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Tasmota | 88 | 25k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| ioBroker | 83 | 1.4k | MIT | yesterday |
| LHA (this tool) | 26 | 13 | MIT | 12 days ago |
LHA: common questions
Is LHA still maintained?
LHA had 8 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 12 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.2.1, is from 1.8 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.