Home Automation

Control Your Home Through Chat

OpenClaw can serve as a natural language interface for your smart home. Instead of navigating multiple apps or learning voice assistant syntax, send a message on Telegram or WhatsApp and let your instance handle the rest.

What You Can Do

Chat-based device control. Send commands like "turn off the living room lights" or "set the thermostat to 21 degrees" through your preferred messaging platform. Your instance translates natural language into the right API calls for your home setup.

Weather-aware automation. Combine the Weather skill with scheduled tasks to create context-aware routines. Close blinds when rain is forecast, adjust heating based on outdoor temperature, or get a morning briefing with the day's weather and your calendar.

Scheduled tasks via cron jobs. Set up recurring automations that run without prompting. Daily energy usage reports, nightly security check summaries, or morning routine triggers that run at the same time every day.

Browser automation for web services. Some home devices only have web interfaces without APIs. OpenClaw's Playwright integration can interact with web-based control panels, filling forms and clicking buttons on your behalf.

Custom skills for niche devices. If you have hardware with an API that OpenClaw doesn't support out of the box, you can write a custom skill to integrate it. This is particularly useful for less common smart home ecosystems.

Self-hosted and private. Your home automation commands stay on your server. No third-party cloud service sees your routines, schedules, or device states.

Recommended Skills

Who Is This For

Tech-savvy homeowners, Home Assistant users looking for a chat interface, privacy advocates who want local control, and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts building custom setups.

Getting Started

Follow the Quickstart Guide to launch your first instance, then enable the skills above in your dashboard.

Related Docs

• Skills and Plugins: How skills work and activation
• Quickstart Guide: Create your first instance
• First Instance Setup: Detailed instance configuration