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HOOBS alternatives for AI agents.

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Build your Smart Home with HOOBS. Connect over 2,000 Accessories to your favorite Ecosystem.

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#1

Matterbridge

Similarity 125Trust 85Excellent 87

Matterbridge plugin manager for Matter

920 starsJun 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add Luligu/matterbridge
#2

Addons

Similarity 120Trust 88Excellent 100

:heavy_plus_sign: Docker add-ons for Home Assistant

2.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotShellIoT
$ npx skills add home-assistant/addons
#3

Nextcloud Snap

Similarity 120Trust 89Excellent 100

☁️📦 Nextcloud packaged as a snap

1.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotShellIoT
$ npx skills add nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap
#4

Open Balena

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

Open source software to manage connected IoT devices at scale

1.3K starsMay 28, 2026 pushrobotics-iotShellIoT
$ npx skills add balena-io/open-balena
#5

Ot Br Posix

Similarity 116Trust 86Excellent 85

OpenThread Border Router, a Thread border router for POSIX-based platforms.

533 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++IoT
$ npx skills add openthread/ot-br-posix
#6

Thingsboard Gateway

Similarity 115Trust 95Excellent 100

Open-source IoT Gateway - integrates devices connected to legacy and third-party systems with ThingsBoard IoT Platform using Modbus, CAN bus, BACnet, BLE, OPC-UA, MQTT, ODBC and REST protocols.

2.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add thingsboard/thingsboard-gateway
#7

Aily Blockly

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

AI IDE for hardware development, support Arduino, MicroPython, ESP32, STM32, RP2040, Nrf5x...

2.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add ailyProject/aily-blockly
#8

Shellhub

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

:computer: Get seamless remote access to any Linux device. Centralized SSH for the edge and cloud computing

2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add shellhub-io/shellhub
#9

Home Assistant Config

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

:house: My Home Assistant configuration, a bit different that others :) Be sure to :star2: this repository for updates!

2.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotIoTClaude Code
$ npx skills add frenck/home-assistant-config
#10

Tuya Cloudcutter

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

A tool that disconnects Tuya IoT devices from the cloud, allowing them to run completely locally.

1.8K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter
#11

Mcuboot

Similarity 115Trust 93Excellent 100

Secure boot for 32-bit Microcontrollers!

1.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add mcu-tools/mcuboot
#12

Sming

Similarity 115Trust 95Excellent 100

Sming - powerful open source framework simplifying the creation of embedded C++ applications.

1.6K starsMay 31, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++IoT
$ npx skills add SmingHub/Sming
#13

Homeassistant Powercalc

Similarity 115Trust 95Excellent 100

Home Assistant Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other appliances

1.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc
#14

Swupdate

Similarity 115Trust 93Excellent 100

Software Update for Embedded Systems

1.8K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add sbabic/swupdate
#15

OpenBK7231T App

Similarity 115Trust 91Excellent 100

Open source firmware (Tasmota/Esphome replacement) for BK7231T, BK7231N, BL2028N, T34, XR809, W800/W801, W600/W601, BL602, LN882H, Realtek chips and more

2.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App
#16

Paho.Mqtt.C

Similarity 114Trust 90Excellent 100

An Eclipse Paho C client library for MQTT for Windows, Linux and MacOS. API documentation: https://eclipse-paho.github.io/paho.mqtt.c/

2.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.c

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