openHAB
Vendor and technology agnostic open source software for home automation.
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Still maintained? Yes: 126 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Home Assistant Cloud and Nest.
At a glance
openHAB quick facts
- Health score
- 57/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 1,159
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- EPL-2.0
Top alternatives to openHAB
Full rankings: Home Assistant Cloud alternatives, Nest alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "This project contains core bundles of the openHAB runtime."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
openHAB scores 57/100, #16 of 20 in Internet of Things (IoT): 126 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 1,159 stars add 12.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
126 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 12.3 / 20
1.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 126
- Last 90 days
- 569
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 20 tools in Internet of Things (IoT) by health , between polluSensWeb (#15) and SIP Irrigation Control (#17) .
Details
| Licence | EPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Java |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 1,159 |
| Open issues | 319 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | openhab/openhab-core ↗ |
openHAB vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with openHAB (Internet of Things (IoT)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Assistant | 100 | 92k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Node RED | 98 | 24k | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| evcc | 95 | 7.5k | MIT | yesterday |
| Domoticz | 94 | 3.8k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| ioBroker | 83 | 1.4k | MIT | yesterday |
| openHAB (this tool) | 57 | 1.2k | EPL-2.0 | yesterday |
openHAB: common questions
What does openHAB replace?
Repoly lists openHAB as an open-source alternative to Home Assistant Cloud and Nest. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where openHAB stands against the others.
Is openHAB still maintained?
openHAB had 126 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.