Sowel

A different way to automate your home

Don't program your home.Apply recipes to it.

Sowel ships proven recipes for what every home actually needs: Motion Light, Sunset Shutters, Presence Heating, Solar Charging, Auto Watering. Drop one on a room, set a few values, you're done.

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Living Room Evening light

Lux

334

Motion

Calm

Lights

1/3

Shutters

0/3

Wall lights x2 Dim 20%

Shutters South Closed

● Motion Light (Dimmable) · 20 % on motion · evening time slot

Your home at your fingertips.

A single interface for the whole house: zones, equipments, modes, recipes, energy. Open it from your laptop in the kitchen, your phone on the couch, your tablet at the office.

Same data, same buttons, same recipes. Just the device you have nearby.

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A different way to automate your home

Most home automation tools turn you into a part-time developer: YAML files, scripts, flows, conditions, edge cases. The result is fragile spaghetti that only one person in the household can debug.

Sowel takes the opposite path. Pick a recipe (Motion Light, Presence Thermostat, Sunset Shutters) and apply it to a zone. You configure a few obvious settings (a duration, a temperature, a time window), not a programming language.

The best automation is the one you forget about. Your home just works.

automation.yaml

automation:
  - alias: "Living-room motion"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.lr_pir
        to: "on"
    condition:
      - condition: numeric_state
        entity_id: sensor.lr_lux
        below: 80
    action:
      - service: light.turn_on
        data: { brightness_pct: 60 }

vs.

Motion Light applied to Living Room

Active

Brightness60 %

Hold time5 min

Lux threshold80

Sowel thinks of your home in rooms and spaces, not in wires and rules.

Five layers describe your house in the same words you'd use yourself. Tap a layer to see what it does.

1. 1DevicesWhat's on your network.
2. 2EquipmentsWhat's in your room.
3. 3ZonesYour rooms and floors.
4. 4ModesThe mood of the moment.
5. 5RecipesWhat runs on its own.

Devices

Plug in an integration (Zigbee, Shelly, ...) and Sowel handles any home automation device: bulbs, motion sensors, switches. One data model, regardless of brand or protocol.

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Equipments

One IKEA Zigbee dimmer becomes the "Kitchen Spots". You stop thinking about hardware, you think about usage.

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Zones

The Living Room, the Ground Floor, the whole house. Group them the way you'd describe them; Sowel rolls up the data (average temperature, lights on, motion detected).

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Modes

Morning: shutters up, heating at 20. Evening: dim lights, alarm armed. A tap, a schedule, a calendar: the house follows.

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Recipes

Apply a recipe to a room and everything just works.

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Deploy in minutes. Yours from day one.

sowel · install

$ curl -fsSL https://sowel.org/install.sh | sh
✓ Docker detected
✓ Pulling sowel:1.5.10 and influxdb:2.7…
✓ Volumes initialised, settings seeded
✓ Sowel is running on http://localhost:3000

Stays at home. No cloud, no telemetry, no third-party account. Your data lives on your hardware: a Raspberry Pi, an old PC, a Proxmox VM.

Plug in what you own. Zigbee, Panasonic, Netatmo, Shelly, Legrand, MQTT-anything. Install integrations like apps; skip what you don't need.

Self-updating. Plugins and the engine update from GitHub. No SSH, no fiddling, no 3 a.m. reboots.

Where to next?

Sowel is open source under AGPL-3.0. Pick the door that fits.

For users

Set up your home, configure equipments, and apply your first recipes.

User guide →

For developers

Architecture, plugin development, recipes, and the data model.

Technical guide →