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The Offline Smart Home : Self-Hosting Your Automations, Security, and Voice Assistants on a Raspberry Pi
by Alice Schwartz and Mark Shifton
Overview
Reactive Publishing
Tired of monthly fees, internet outages, and Big Tech listening to every command? The Offline Smart Home shows you how to build a powerful, private, and reliable smart home system that runs entirely on your own hardware.
Using affordable Raspberry Pi hardware, you'll learn to self-host:
- Home automation (lights, sensors, scenes, and schedules)
- Local security cameras and alerts
- Voice assistants that work without an internet connection
- Privacy-first integrations that keep your data on your network
What you'll discover inside:
- Step-by-step setup of a fully offline smart home hub
- Choosing and configuring the best open-source software stack
- Securing your system against local and remote threats
- Voice control with privacy (no Alexa, no Google)
- Expanding with sensors, actuators, and custom automations
- Troubleshooting, backups, and scaling your setup
Whether you're a beginner who wants a simple, reliable system or a tinkerer ready to go deeper, this practical guide gives you complete ownership of your home automation, without compromising privacy or reliability.
Ditch the cloud. Own your home.
Perfect for makers, privacy enthusiasts, and anyone frustrated with modern smart home limitations.
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798182079167
- ISBN-10: 9798182079167
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.33 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.41 pounds
- Page Count: 538
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