Is home-assistant.io a scam?

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on home-assistant.io. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is home-assistant.io safe to use?

home-assistant.io passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does home-assistant.io have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. home-assistant.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 70 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Has home-assistant.io been flagged by antivirus engines?

No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report home-assistant.io as clean.

Is home-assistant.io on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. home-assistant.io is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is home-assistant.io hosted?

home-assistant.io resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.

Is home-assistant.io a well-known website?

Yes. home-assistant.io sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.

How often is the home-assistant.io report updated?

This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around home-assistant.io have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Security Review

Is home-assistant.io legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 92/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Official Home Assistant open-source home automation platform with clean security scan, active non-profit governance, and established community presence.

Why we trust it

Zero malicious detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklists.Registered non-profit governance (Open Home Foundation, Switzerland) with active commercial partner (Nabu Casa, Inc., California since 2018).Ranks in global top-100k by traffic, indicating established user base and recognition.

home-assistant.ioScanned 4d ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 100·MT 88

Technical red flags (1)

Tech-Support Scam

Warning signals (1)

Redirects to another domain

Positive signals (4)

Antivirus clear Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

0/92

All engines report clean

Domain Age

—

Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 95% confidence

SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

home-assistant.io

1Professional, consistent design with recognizable Home Assistant branding, logo, and color scheme throughout.

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →

Visual Screenshot Analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

/ 100

Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The page visually matches the well-known Home Assistant open-source home automation project with consistent branding, professional layout, and no scam indicators present. No URL bar is visible to confirm or deny domain authenticity, but no visual mismatches or deceptive elements are detected.

Visual risk10/100

What our vision model saw

6 signals

Professional, consistent design with recognizable Home Assistant branding, logo, and color scheme throughout.

Navigation bar contains expected links (Getting started, Documentation, Our hardware, Integrations, Blog, Need help?) consistent with the legitimate Home Assistant website.

Version badge '2026.6.2' displayed prominently in the header, consistent with Home Assistant's versioning convention.

No urgency tactics, countdown timers, fake trust badges, or suspicious overlays visible.

No forms requesting sensitive credentials, wallet seeds, or payment information visible on this page.

No URL bar visible in the screenshot, so clone status cannot be confirmed or denied based on domain mismatch.

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust88/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 92 engines, and the domain ranks in the global top-100k by traffic. The Open Home Foundation is a registered tax-exempt non-profit Stiftung in Switzerland, with Nabu Casa, Inc. providing commercial support from California since 2018. The page displays professional branding consistent with the well-known project, includes links to legitimate external resources (GitHub, The Verge, Ars Technica), and shows active development with recent release notes dated June 2026. Community forums and Reddit discussions reflect genuine technical conversations about reliability and maintenance rather than fraud complaints. The isolated phishing reports found appear to be false positives or sarcastic posts unrelated to the main domain.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

The page presents Home Assistant as an open-source home automation platform emphasizing local control and privacy. It displays current version information (2026.6.2), links to documentation, installation guides, integrations, and hardware products. The body text references 1500+ integrations, community forums, and partnerships with device manufacturers. No login forms, payment requests, or credential-harvesting elements are present.

Infrastructure

The domain uses valid SSL encryption issued by Google Trust Services with 70 days remaining. Hosting IP 104.26.5.238 has an abuse score of 0/100 with only 1 historical abuse report. The site loads external resources from legitimate CDNs (cdn.jsdelivr.net, fonts.googleapis.com) and references to GitHub, tech news sites, and the Open Home Foundation's own domain.

Domain History

WHOIS data is unavailable, but the domain ranks in the global top-100k, indicating established traffic and recognition. The site redirects across 2 hops without homoglyph or IDN abuse patterns. Business registration confirms the Open Home Foundation as a Swiss non-profit with active status, supported commercially by Nabu Casa, Inc. in California.

Web Reputation

Independent review aggregators show an average score of 3.5 out of 5 from 6 an independent review aggregator reviews. Community forums contain technical discussions about reliability and maintenance rather than fraud complaints. Two isolated reports flagged as phishing or scam appear to be false positives or sarcastic posts; no widespread confirmed scam reports exist. The project maintains active GitHub presence, large Reddit community, and positive coverage from established tech publications.

Risk Factors

Automated scam-family classifier flagged 'Tech-Support Scam' despite no evidence of support-scam patterns; likely a false positive from the detection heuristic.
Two isolated phishing/scam reports found in community forums and Reddit appear to be false positives or sarcastic commentary rather than confirmed fraud.

Positive Signals

Zero malicious detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean browser blocklists.
Registered non-profit governance (Open Home Foundation, Switzerland) with active commercial partner (Nabu Casa, Inc., California since 2018).
Ranks in global top-100k by traffic, indicating established user base and recognition.
Professional, consistent branding with no urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or credential-harvesting forms.
Active development, community forums, GitHub presence, and positive coverage from The Verge, Ars Technica, and other tech publications.

AI Recommendation

This is a safe, legitimate open-source project. Users can confidently visit the site, review documentation, download the software, and participate in community forums. No security concerns or fraudulent activity detected.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for home-assistant.io, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · Switzerland

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

2 scam reports · 2 positive

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

home-assistant.io is the official website for the open-source Home Assistant home automation platform, governed by the Open Home Foundation.
Open Home Foundation is a registered tax-exempt non-profit Stiftung in Switzerland, established to support open-source smart home projects with emphasis on privacy and local control.
Nabu Casa, Inc. (US company founded 2018) is a commercial partner that provides Home Assistant Cloud subscriptions and hardware, funding the Foundation.
A small number of Trustpilot reviews exist (average ~3.5/5 from 6 reviews); community forums show mostly positive or technical discussions about reliability and maintenance.
Isolated false-positive phishing reports on community.home-assistant.io and sarcastic/joke scam warnings on Facebook/Reddit; no widespread confirmed scam reports or major complaints found.
Project has active GitHub presence, large Reddit community (r/homeassistant), official documentation, and positive coverage from tech sites like The Verge, Ars Technica, and How-To Geek.
Page title and description match the legitimate open-source project; detected "Tech-Support Scam" family appears inconsistent with search results.

Scam reports (2)

Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.

community.home-assistant.ioopen
"Home Assistant and Nabucasa Auth Site reported as phishing"
Redditopen
"Matter & Works with Home Assistant is a scam!"

Positive reviews (2)

Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.

Trustpilotopen
"home-assistant.io 3.3 Average TrustScore 3.5 out of 5 6 reviews"
community.home-assistant.ioopen
"Yes it is reliable. However it does require monthly updates and possibly configuration changes"

Business registration

Status: active · Switzerland

Open Home Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit Stiftung based in Switzerland. Related commercial entity Nabu Casa, Inc. is registered in the US (Irvine, California) since 2018.

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

home-assistant.io is confirmed as the official website for the open-source Home Assistant home automation platform. The Open Home Foundation, a registered Swiss non-profit, governs the project with support from Nabu Casa, Inc., a US commercial entity founded in 2018. Community forums and Reddit discussions show active, mostly positive engagement focused on technical topics. Two isolated phishing/scam reports appear to be false positives or sarcastic commentary rather than confirmed fraud. Independent review sites show modest but positive ratings (3.5/5 average from 6 an independent review aggregator reviews). The project maintains active GitHub development, large community presence, and positive coverage from established tech publications including The Verge and Ars Technica.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified

Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious60Harmless92Engines

Clean

Kaspersky

Clean

Bitdefender

Clean

Microsoft

Not in pass

ESET-NOD32

Not in pass

Avira

Not in pass

Sophos

Clean

Fortinet

Clean

Google Safebrowsing

Clean

Emsisoft

Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found

No clear contact details on the page

Emails on site's domainNone

Phone numbers7777777

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles10

Signal Summary

Several contact red flags

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.
Scam family match: Tech-Support Scam.

Phone number listed (7777777).
Links to 14 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1

ExpiresAug 20, 2026 (70d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingCloudflare, Inc.

Server locationUS

Web servercloudflare

PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Yes

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://home-assistant.io/
2301https://home-assistant.io/
3200https://www.home-assistant.io/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file1

ISPCloudflare, Inc.

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

VirusTotal

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on home-assistant.io. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
home-assistant.io passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
Yes. home-assistant.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 70 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report home-assistant.io as clean.
No. home-assistant.io is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
home-assistant.io resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
Yes. home-assistant.io sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 10, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around home-assistant.io have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·home-assistant.io

SAFE

home-assistant.io is the official website for Home Assistant, a legitimate open-source home automation platform governed by the Open Home Foundation, a registered Swiss non-profit. The site shows no malicious indicators, maintains active development, and has established community presence across forums and social channels.

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