Control your smart home with AI
Talk to your home in plain language, let a proactive AI agent act for you, and keep it all private, with open-weight AI hosted in Europe.
Most "AI" in the smart home world is just a voice assistant that turns your words into a fixed set of commands, while sending everything to a big tech cloud. Gladys takes AI much further, and keeps it private.
With Gladys, you talk to your home in your own words and a real AI agent figures out what to do: it reads your sensors, controls your devices, analyzes your camera images, writes automations for you, and even sends you a weekly report on your home. And because it runs on open-weight models hosted in Europe, your home doesn't become fuel for someone's advertising machine.
What AI can do in your home
AI in Gladys isn't a gimmick bolted on top. It runs through the whole platform, from everyday control to proactive decisions.
Talk to your home from the chat, Telegram or a voice widget. There's no fixed list of commands: ask in your own words and the AI figures out what to do.
Gladys reasons before answering and chains several actions to reach a goal: read a sensor, control devices, pull up your energy history, or build a scene, all from a single request.
Give Gladys an instruction in plain language and let it decide. For example: when there's motion in the garage, check the camera and only alert you if the car isn't yours.
Every week, Gladys sends a personalized summary of your home: comfort, energy use and cost, silent or disconnected sensors, trends and practical advice.
Gladys includes an MCP server, so you can connect Claude Desktop, Perplexity or Mistral Le Chat to your home to read sensors, view cameras and control devices.
Got a device no standard supports? Describe it in a GitHub ticket and an AI builds a Matterbridge plugin for it overnight, no coding required.
Private by design
This is where Gladys is different. Cloud voice assistants send everything you say to servers abroad, tie it to your account, and use it to profile you. Gladys' built-in AI runs on open-weight models hosted in France (Scaleway), so your requests are processed in Europe, under GDPR, never sold or mined for ads.
And if you want to go even further, AI in the smart home doesn't have to mean the cloud at all: you can connect your own local LLM, so your home's intelligence runs entirely on hardware you own. Either way, you stay in control of where your data goes.
Getting started with AI in Gladys
There are two complementary ways to bring AI into your Gladys home:
- Gladys' built-in AI assistant is included in Gladys Plus. Once your instance is connected, talk to your home from the Chat tab, Telegram, or the voice assistant widget.
- To use your own AI agent, enable the MCP server and connect a client like Claude Desktop, Perplexity or Mistral Le Chat. It works locally on your network, and remotely through the Gladys Plus Open API.
- The more devices you have in Gladys, the more the AI can see and do for you.
From there, you just talk to your home, and it does the rest.
Go further with AI in Gladys
Want to dig in? These guides cover each piece of Gladys' AI, and how it stays private:
The AI integration: talk to Gladys from the chat, Telegram or the voice assistant.
Plug your favorite AI agent into your smart home through the Gladys MCP server.
The optional subscription that unlocks the built-in AI, hosted in Europe.
A private, local alternative to cloud voice assistants like Alexa.
The bigger picture: how AI fits into a fully local, private smart home.
Frequently asked questions
Can I control my smart home with AI?
Yes. With Gladys Assistant you control your home in natural language, with no fixed list of commands. You can talk to it from a chat, Telegram or a voice widget, and a real AI agent reads your sensors, controls your devices, analyzes camera images and even creates automations for you.
Is there a privacy-friendly AI for the smart home?
Yes. Gladys' built-in AI runs on open-weight models hosted in France (Scaleway), so your requests are processed in Europe under GDPR, never sold or used for advertising. You can also connect your own local LLM so the AI runs entirely on hardware you own.
Which AI model does Gladys use?
Gladys' built-in AI uses open-weight large language models hosted in Europe (Scaleway, France) through Gladys Plus. You can also connect your own AI agent, such as Claude Desktop, Perplexity or Mistral Le Chat, via the Gladys MCP server.
Can AI create automations for me?
Yes. Gladys' AI agent can reason and chain several actions: read sensors, control devices, show your energy history, and create scenes from a single natural-language request, like "create a scene that turns off all the lights at 11 p.m.".
Can I connect Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral to my smart home?
Yes. Gladys includes an MCP server (Model Context Protocol) that lets compatible AI agents such as Claude Desktop, Perplexity or Mistral Le Chat read your device states, view your cameras, control lights and switches, and launch scenes. It works on your local network, and remotely with the Gladys Plus Open API.
Does AI in Gladys cost extra?
Gladys' built-in AI assistant is part of the Gladys Plus subscription (Plus plan). Connecting your own AI agent through the local MCP server works with your own client and runs on your network. Gladys itself stays free and open-source at its core.
Bring AI into your smart home
Gladys is free and open-source, and its AI runs on open-weight models hosted in Europe. Private by design, self-hosted, no data resale.