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Gladys Assistant

Your privacy-first, open-source smart home assistant

CI status Codecov License: Apache 2.0 Community forum PRs welcome

Try It • Getting Started • Contribute • Contributors • License

Gladys Assistant dashboard


🚀 Try Gladys Assistant

Spin up a local Gladys Assistant instance in seconds using Docker:

sudo docker run -d \
  --log-driver json-file \
  --log-opt max-size=10m \
  --cgroupns=host \
  --restart=always \
  --privileged \
  --network=host \
  --name gladys \
  -e NODE_ENV=production \
  -e SERVER_PORT=80 \
  -e TZ=Europe/Paris \
  -e SQLITE_FILE_PATH=/var/lib/gladysassistant/gladys-production.db \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v /var/lib/gladysassistant:/var/lib/gladysassistant \
  -v /dev:/dev \
  -v /run/udev:/run/udev:ro \
  -v /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro \
  gladysassistant/gladys:v5

Prefer using Docker Compose? Check out our Docker Compose installation guide.

📚 Getting Started

To install Gladys Assistant on your smart home setup, head over to our official website for a step-by-step guide.

Whether you're installing on a mini-PC, a NAS or a Raspberry Pi, we've got you covered with clear instructions tailored to your setup.


🤝 Contribute to Gladys

We welcome contributions of all kinds — code, documentation, translations, or feature ideas.

Gladys is built by an open-source community, and you can be a part of it!

1. Set up your development environment

Follow the guide that matches your system to get started:

2. Start developing

Once your environment is ready, dive into our contributing guide to understand the project structure, how to build features, and how to open a pull request.

3. AI-assisted development is welcome

We use AI extensively to build Gladys ourselves, and we're very favorable to AI-assisted contributions. Read the AI-assisted development section of our contributing guide, and point your agent to AGENTS.md: it contains everything needed to work on this codebase.


🧑‍💻 Contributors

A huge thank you to all our amazing contributors! 💜
Gladys wouldn't be where it is today without your help.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people 👏

Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie

💻 💼 📖 🤔
Vincent KULAK
Vincent KULAK

💻 🚇 📖 🤔
Alexandre Trovato
Alexandre Trovato

💻 📖 🤔
Bertrand d'Aure
Bertrand d'Aure

💻
Terdious
Terdious

💻 🤔
Stéphane
Stéphane

💻 🚇 🤔
Scott Fischer
Scott Fischer

🌍
thib_rdr
thib_rdr

📖
Callum Macdonald
Callum Macdonald

📖
Redshark30
Redshark30

📖
Lamanda
Lamanda

💻
Thibaut Courvoisier
Thibaut Courvoisier

💻
Frédéric Le Barzic
Frédéric Le Barzic

💻
NickDub
NickDub

💻
Cyril Beslay
Cyril Beslay

💻
callemand
callemand

💻
Brad Sanders
Brad Sanders

📖
Rob McCann
Rob McCann

💻
Ikko Ashimine
Ikko Ashimine

📖
Ehtesham Siddiqui
Ehtesham Siddiqui

📖
Pochet Romuald
Pochet Romuald

💻
Martin Garcia
Martin Garcia

💻
euguuu
euguuu

💻
Jonathan Brisavoine
Jonathan Brisavoine

💻
Alex
Alex

💻
Nagromdark
Nagromdark

💻
vincentBesseau
vincentBesseau

💻 🤔
William Deren
William Deren

💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Read Contributing.md if you want to help us on Gladys Assistant.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

© 2014–present Gladys Assistant.

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