7 alternatives to core

home-assistant/core — :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. (91,939 stars, Apache-2.0, database, auth, ui).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,144 licence-cleared components from home-assistant/core itself.

The alternatives in detail

• n-ia-hane/esphome-intercom
  VoIP Stack for Home Assistant and ESPHome: SIP audio/video calls, dashboard phones, ESP32 intercoms, ring groups, trunks and call routing through HA automations.
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 297 stars · 313 components · search them
• bytebeamio/rumqtt
  The MQTT ecosystem in rust
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,181 stars · 122 components · search them
• 256dpi/arduino-mqtt
  MQTT library for Arduino
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,093 stars · 9 components · search them
• kellerza/sunsynk
  Deye/Sunsynk Inverter Python library and Home Assistant OS Addon
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 340 stars · 33 components · search them
• absmach/magistrala
  IoT Platform Framework
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,659 stars · 269 components · search them
• hivemq/hivemq-mqtt-client
  HiveMQ MQTT Client is an MQTT 5.0 and MQTT 3.1.1 compatible and feature-rich high-performance Java client library with different API flavours and backpressure support
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,127 stars · 531 components · search them
• espressif/esp-mqtt
  ESP32 mqtt component
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 759 stars · 20 components · search them

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