We build hardware we'd actually want to own.
HOMI is the second product from Prizmox. The first was IMMI Photo Box — an Immich appliance that keeps your family photos off the cloud. Both products exist for the same reason: too much of our home has quietly become a data source for companies we never meant to hire.
Why a smart home hub?
The average home in 2026 has more than 20 connected devices. Lights, cameras, locks, thermostats, vacuums, doorbells, TVs, speakers, fridges. Almost every one of them phones home to a cloud service, and most of them stop working — or work worse — when the internet goes down.
Home Assistant solved the technical side of this problem years ago. It's the most popular open-source home automation project on the planet, with over 75,000 stars on GitHub, more than 2,500 integrations, and well over a million active installs. The one thing it doesn't have is a box that plugs in and works.
That's the gap HOMI fills. Real Home Assistant, real upstream software, plus the hardware, the setup, and the polish that makes it usable for someone who doesn't want to spend a weekend flashing SD cards.
What Prizmox means
Prizmox is a small, deliberately quiet team. We take open-source software that deserves to be a finished consumer product, and we build the hardware around it. We don't fork. We don't lock down. We ship products that keep working if we disappear.
Our guarantee is architectural, not marketing: HOMI is a standard x86 computer running an upstream open-source OS. If Prizmox goes away, you still own the hardware, your data is still yours, and Home Assistant keeps getting updated from the community. The only thing you lose is our support email.
Open-source upstream
We run the real project. No fork, no vendor layer, no silent telemetry. You get the same Home Assistant every self-hosted user gets, preloaded.
Local-first by default
Your data stays in your home. Works offline. No subscription to unlock features. Cloud integrations are opt-in, one device at a time.
Survives us
Standard x86 hardware. Standard open-source OS. Full data export any time. HOMI outlives Prizmox on purpose.
What we don't do
We don't collect telemetry from your HOMI — the only thing we know is whether you've downloaded an update, and even that is aggregate, optional, and anonymized. We don't run a cloud service that holds your data hostage. We don't sell a subscription. We don't put features behind a paywall.
We also don't do whiteglove installation or 24/7 phone support. Our support model is email plus community forum — which is honest about what a small team can deliver, and which is consistent with how Home Assistant itself works. If you need more, Home Assistant has a growing ecosystem of certified professional installers who can help.
Who we build for
Two kinds of people, mostly. The first are families with a lot of smart devices already and a growing unease about where all the data is going. They don't want to learn YAML. They want one box that quietly replaces the noisy five.
The second are technically inclined people who have already tried Home Assistant — maybe built a Pi rig once, maybe still run it — who want to recommend something to their parents, their partner, their clients. HOMI is for people who already know the software is good and just want the hardware to match.
How to reach us
Written support: contact@homi.prizmox.com. Expect 72 hours on business days. For community support, the Home Assistant forums and the r/homeassistant subreddit are active and generous. We don't have a phone line. We don't have a Discord. We don't have much of an online presence. That's deliberate — the product is the argument.
Preorders are open for the v1 run, capped at 500 units, shipping Q4 2026.