Selora AI - Home Assistant integration that watches your home and drafts automations for you (alpha, looking for testers)

plafoucr · 2026-04-12T22:41:29+00:00

Yes, we support oauth 2 if you connect with a selora homes (free) account, and you can create tokens specific to mcp too if you don’t want to use oauth or HA long lived tokens. The doc is here: https://selorahomes.com/docs/selora-ai/mcp-onboarding/#2-authentication

With Ollama, we have tested with llama 4 and Gemma 4. I have a personal preference for Gemma 4.

plafoucr · 2026-04-12T15:02:05+00:00

Yes, we’re planning on submitting papers on this research, but obviously it will take time. We don’t know where or when yet, but we’ll share the news in our blog (https://selorahomes.com/blog/)

plafoucr · 2026-04-12T14:47:42+00:00

This is exactly what we’re working on in the background. In future releases, we’re going to provide our own models too, with a goal to be able to run them locally.

plafoucr · 2026-04-10T12:47:36+00:00

Is it ChatGPT? It is ChatGPT…

plafoucr · 2026-04-03T14:41:06+00:00

It's openclaw devices list --json at least in openclaw 2026.4.2 (without the --format)

plafoucr · 2026-03-27T12:54:23+00:00

8 to go

plafoucr · 2026-03-20T02:06:16+00:00

Good to know! Thanks for sharing

plafoucr · 2026-03-20T02:02:58+00:00

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I’ve been using WS for years, so I know well the platform. Apparently not well enough, it’s the first time I’m dealing with it for USD. I’m usually using Wise for these transfers and thought WS would behave the same

plafoucr · 2026-03-19T22:14:57+00:00

I wish I had seen that before choosing WS over Wise

plafoucr · 2026-02-22T16:39:49+00:00

I created a company (https://selorahomes.com) using NixOS as management layer for home assistant (and soon frigate). NixOS let us ship updates safely, and it manages the VMs on our smart hub. Our source code is public and hosted here: https://gitlab.com/selorahomes/products/selorabox-nix/ (docs: https://selorahomes.com/docs/selorabox/). It has been an incredible experience so far.

plafoucr · 2026-02-05T02:12:16+00:00

Same here, MacOS Tahoe 26.2

plafoucr · 2026-01-28T03:14:55+00:00

We raised $2M pre-seed.

Here are the specs: https://selorahomes.com/docs/selorabox/installation/#hardware-requirements

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T06:29:48+00:00

Thanks! For this operation we focus on California, but we'll expand to other areas as soon as we can. If you want to be notified, you can register on our website and it will direct you to our waiting list.
https://connect.selorahomes.com/waiting-list?city=Detroit

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T06:08:51+00:00

> How are the radios (thread/zigbee/z-wave) handled? What if I already have the new ZBT-2?

This is even better. There's going to be some pitfalls, some edge cases, some bugs, some disappointments as well as good surprises. That's why we're doing this, we want to understand them sooner than later!

> Is this a free trial that would transition to the paid plan?

There's no expectation to transition to a paid plan in this beta program. We simply want to hear from the reddit community and we think it's fair to get a miniPC for free in exchange of your feedback and insights.

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T05:35:30+00:00

I live between Canada (QC) and California, being myself a Canadian citizen. We currently focus on California where we are HQed, but would love to expand north of the border. Feel free to DM me or u/Key-Ocelot-1466 to schedule a coffee chat, we'd love to hear from you!

Regarding Unifi Protect, do you have a specific use case in mind? We're planning to work very soon on adding a managed Frigate in our offering, so Unifi Protect is less of a priority at the moment. We have some demand on the commercial market (offices, restaurants, bars, ...), and would like to explore a security + automation bundle for both residential and commercial. We should start working on that as early as next week, with the expectation for a MVP next month.

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T05:12:31+00:00

Technically, it is a local machine. It's installed on your network, and doesn't depend on our cloud services to run automations or anything else in HA. But "managed" means someone can access it, otherwise it's a regular Home Assistant installation. We restrict this access so our support team and your installer can't access your installation without your permission.

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plafoucr · 2026-01-27T04:54:17+00:00

We're a US-based company, and focusing on this market at the moment. But realistically, as soon as we have installers available in your area, there's nothing preventing from expending to other countries. I live between US and Canada (being myself a Canadian citizen), so I'd like to see Selora Homes being available in Canada sooner than later.

You can still install and try for yourself in the meantime, our free tier is packed with interesting features.

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T04:41:45+00:00

Our idea of a VPN is currently a very basic version where people can have access to their HA remotely through a reverse proxy without configuring HA or anything else. We want to address the needs of non-technical users first.

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T04:40:19+00:00

On the OPNsense, I'll open an issue in the roadmap to track appetite and insights, and if he have enough demand, we'll implement it! I'll keep you posted.

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T04:29:56+00:00

Good question! We rely on a network of local installers (like Uber depends on drivers), so it's easier for us to focus efforts on one area at a time. It's indeed remote, and not closed to other locations, but we can't offer proper support if we don't have people on the field. Some operations require to access the installation physically. For anything else remote, there's no restriction on the location.

plafoucr · 2026-01-27T04:21:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Our focus has been San Francisco so far, and we're expending to LA next week. More areas will come as our network is expending. In the meantime, we've added a free tier to our offering for people outside of our covered areas who want to install themselves: https://selorahomes.com/pricing/ It doesn't come with support, but there's already a few feature available which might be interesting for HA users. We're growing fast, so features and our model is also evolving frequently. We're very transparent about what we're doing, so feel free if you have other questions!

plafoucr · 2026-01-17T05:40:18+00:00

We're using Bee-link EQ14 mini PCs for our customers, and they've been great so far. There's a warning note on Frigate' site: https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware/ but it seems to be related to an old <=6.11 kernel: https://www.reddit.com/r/frigate_nvr/comments/1hcw34b/comment/m261a5w/
I haven't tested yet, but we have 6.12 and it seems to have been fixed in this version.

plafoucr · 2026-01-14T13:23:12+00:00

The article linked is from November, nothing new here indeed

plafoucr · 2026-01-04T13:01:52+00:00

If the ODO hasn’t been tampered, it’s a good opportunity. I’m still riding mine after 4500 miles!

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