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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Home Assistant vs Scrypted
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Home Assistant and Scrypted — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:self-hostedopen-sourcesmart-home
Home Assistant vs Scrypted: at a glance
What is Home Assistant?
Home Assistant keeps pulling hidden power-user features into the UI, now trigger IDs.
Home Assistant ships one release a month, each built around a friction point that used to need YAML or a buried menu. 2026.10 gives trigger IDs a proper UI, so one automation can branch on several triggers without hand-written IDs, and replaces the map with a vector OpenStreetMap after the old provider started requiring an API key. It also adds a Modbus connections panel, one-click AI connection and 15 new integrations.
What is Scrypted?
Scrypted's v0.147.0 pairs RTSP compliance fixes with two web-server security patches.
Scrypted is a self-hosted home video and NVR platform. After a ten-month gap, v0.145.0 and v0.147.0 landed eleven days apart in September. v0.147.0 fixes RTSP parser compliance, an engine.io routing vulnerability and an Express sendFile relative-path issue, and moves plugins to a rollup build.
Home Assistant vs Scrypted: editorial side-by-side
Home Assistant
2.5INFRA · APIS
Home Assistant keeps pulling hidden power-user features into the UI, now trigger IDs.
◆ Current state
Home Assistant ships one release a month, each built around a friction point that used to need YAML or a buried menu. 2026.10 gives trigger IDs a proper UI, so one automation can branch on several triggers without hand-written IDs, and replaces the map with a vector OpenStreetMap after the old provider started requiring an API key. It also adds a Modbus connections panel, one-click AI connection and 15 new integrations.
◆ Where it's heading
The 2026 run reads as a single program: infrared in April, radio frequency in May, purpose-specific triggers by default in July, shared Modbus connections in September, trigger IDs in October. Each release takes something experts already had and makes it findable. Nabu Casa is also renaming Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link, planned for the December release.
◆ Prediction
The Cloud-to-Link rename is scheduled for the December release, so expect it there; the November release will most likely take on another automation or dashboard feature that still needs YAML.
Scrypted
0.0INFRA · APIS
Scrypted's v0.147.0 pairs RTSP compliance fixes with two web-server security patches.
◆ Current state
Scrypted is a self-hosted home video and NVR platform. After a ten-month gap, v0.145.0 and v0.147.0 landed eleven days apart in September. v0.147.0 fixes RTSP parser compliance, an engine.io routing vulnerability and an Express sendFile relative-path issue, and moves plugins to a rollup build.
◆ Where it's heading
Visible activity is maintenance and security rather than features: type-safety refactors, dependency updates and server hardening. The last user-facing camera feature in these entries was Amcrest text overlay support in May 2025.
◆ Prediction
Expect sporadic point releases with dependency and security fixes; the entries give no sign of a feature push.
Alternatives to Home Assistant and Scrypted
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Home Assistant or Scrypted.
FOSSA CLI
fossa-cli's feed jumps from 3.17 to 3.20, with clearer container scan errors.
Gloo Gateway
Gloo Gateway's October batch fixes proxies that silently kept stale endpoints.
Traefik
Traefik v3.8 rc.1 is a Gateway API release; v2.11 keeps getting security patches.
Render
Render's autumn changelog is plan tuning and runtime defaults while Workflows fills out.
Prometheus Alertmanager
Alertmanager 0.34.2 turns off CORS by default, breaking cross-origin API calls.
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Recent activity from Home Assistant and Scrypted
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 26d agoHome Assistant2026.10: Trigger IDs get a UI and maps move to OpenStreetMap
- 1mo agoScryptedv0.147.0: RTSP parser compliance and web server security fixes
- 2mo agoScryptedv0.145.0: TypeScript type-safety refactoring
- 2mo agoHome Assistant2026.9: Modbus Connection Sharing and UI Device Selection
- 2mo agoHome Assistant2026.8: Approachability Improvements and ESPHome Starter Kit
- 4mo agoHome Assistant2026.7: Automations that speak your language ⚡
- 5mo agoHome Assistant2026.6: Dashboard Card Picker Redesign
- 6mo agoHome Assistant2026.5: Radio Frequency Integration and Open Home Commitment
- 0y agoScryptedv0.143.0: maintenance release
- 1y agoScryptedv0.141.0: UniFi and LXC updater fixes
- 1y agoScryptedv0.139.0: Amcrest video text overlay support
- 1y agoScryptedv0.137.0: cluster manager address fix
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Home Assistant and Scrypted?
Both compete on the same themes — self-hosted, open-source, smart-home — within Infra & APIs. Home Assistant is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Home Assistant better than Scrypted?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Home Assistant is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Home Assistant?
Top Home Assistant alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Home Assistant alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/home-assistant for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Scrypted?
Top Scrypted alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Scrypted alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/scrypted for the full list with editorial commentary on each.