Your home is talking about you.

Understand exactly how centralized smart homes harvest family data — and how open source shuts the pipeline down.

data points/day leaked by an average smart home

third-party trackers found across smart home apps

data points a fully local Jarvis home sends out

How the harvest actually works

Wake-word devices stream audio snippets to the cloud. Human contractors have reviewed private recordings. Transcripts feed ad profiles.

Footage is stored on corporate servers, has been shared with third parties without warrants, and can be mined by AI training pipelines.

Occupancy schedules reveal when you sleep, leave, and return. That behavioral data is gold for brokers — and burglars if breached.

Companion apps bundle trackers that fingerprint your phone, location, and habits — even when you never open them.

Centralized ecosystem vs. an OpenSource.Haus local-first home

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Anyone can read the source. Backdoors and trackers have nowhere to hide when thousands of eyes review every commit.

Home Assistant, MagicMirror², ESPHome — all run entirely on your hardware. If the internet dies, your home keeps working.

No shareholder pressure to monetize your data. The roadmap is driven by users, not ad revenue targets.

No bricked devices when a company “sunsets” a product. You own the firmware, so your hardware lives as long as you want.

Every system we sell runs fully offline — the internet is optional, never required.

We will never collect, sell, or share your household data. We couldn’t if we wanted to: it lives on your hardware.

All software we ship is open source and independently auditable.

You own your hardware outright — no rentals, no forced subscriptions, no remote kill switches.

If we disappear tomorrow, your home keeps working forever.