Gladys Assistant

Your privacy-first, open-source smart home assistant

Try It • Getting Started • Contribute • Contributors • License

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🚀 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 \
  gladysassistant/gladys:v4

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.

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🤝 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:

• MacOS / Linux Setup Guide
• Windows Setup Guide

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.

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🧑‍💻 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 💻 💼 📖 🤔	Vincent KULAK 💻 🚇 📖 🤔	Alexandre Trovato 💻 📖 🤔	Bertrand d'Aure 💻	Terdious 💻 🤔	Stéphane 💻 🚇 🤔	Scott Fischer 🌍
thib_rdr 📖	Callum Macdonald 📖	Redshark30 📖	Lamanda 💻	Thibaut Courvoisier 💻	Frédéric Le Barzic 💻	NickDub 💻
Cyril Beslay 💻	callemand 💻	Brad Sanders 📖	Rob McCann 💻	Ikko Ashimine 📖	Ehtesham Siddiqui 📖	Pochet Romuald 💻
Martin Garcia 💻	euguuu 💻	Jonathan Brisavoine 💻	Alex 💻

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

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

Articles

• EN: Interview in Console #107
• EN: Hackster.io - Gladys Assistant Is a Privacy-First Smart Home Platform — and Now Installable in Raspberry Pi Imager
• FR: Framboise 314 - Plus de 500 installations pour l’assistant domotique Gladys !

📄 License

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

© 2014–present Gladys Assistant.