About Homer
How it started
Homer started from a simple idea: technology should work for you, not the other way around. What began as the control of a single heating installation grew into a system that has been running for over ten years.
No investors, no growth plans, no marketing department. Homer is built by someone who writes the electronics, the firmware and the software himself. You can tell: it's solid, it's practical, and it does what it's supposed to do.
Homer doesn't make your home "smart". Homer makes your home yours.
The brackets stand for your input. Homer provides the framework — what goes inside, you decide.
What Homer stands for
Autonomy
Homer puts you in control. Everything runs locally, in your home, on your hardware — you decide what happens and when. Homer carries it out; it never takes over.
No fuss
The best interface is no interface. Heating to 21 degrees? One action, done. No menu mazes, no unnecessary confirmations. If your partner can use it without ever thinking about it, it works.
Quiet presence
Homer doesn't shout. No notifications fighting for your attention. Homer is there, in the background, and only speaks up when there's truly something to say. Technology that imposes itself is not good technology.
Inviting curiosity
Homer doesn't moralize. It doesn't tell you you're doing things wrong. But it can open a door: "Your heating ran 40 hours while nobody was home. Want to see how that could be different?" No judgment. An invitation.
What Homer does
At its core, Homer is an energy system. It brings all your sources together and controls them locally — and because it's full infrastructure, it can run more than just energy.
Energy orchestration
Heat pump, solar panels, battery, multiple heat sources — Homer makes them work together. Consume when power is cheap, store or feed back when it pays. Over 150 releases of real-world refinement, on real installations.
Tools for installers
Professional distribution-panel design, load and panel analysis, tariff comparison and real-time monitoring of every circuit. Generate a complete PDF report of the installation — for the client or your own records.
Own hardware
The controllers, circuit boards and firmware are designed in-house. No black box: measuring and switching hardware that does exactly what's needed, built by someone who writes both the electronics and the code.
Beyond that: because Homer is a local system on your own box, you can also run your admin, your messages or a biomeiler on it. Not the core — but good to know it's possible, on your hardware, under your control.
Our model
Homer is honest software. You pay a fair price, and you get an honest product. No hidden revenue models, no data being quietly sold, no "free" tier slowly pushing you toward a paid plan.
The source code is available for inspection on request. You can verify what's running and modify it for your own use. That's not a marketing trick — that's trust you can verify.
The modules you buy fund further development. Every euro goes back into the product. No investors, no shareholders, no exit strategy.
You own what you buy. Homer runs on your hardware — if we cease to exist tomorrow, your system keeps running.
You see what you run. The source code is available for inspection on request. No hidden tracking, no silent updates that take away features.
You pay fairly. No surprise price increases. No "legacy plan" being quietly phased out.
You're treated as an adult. No patronizing interfaces. No artificial limitations. Homer does what you ask.
Where Homer stands
Homer has been running in real installations for over ten years. From complex agricultural operations with six heat sources and 28 control nodes, to homes with solar collectors and heat pumps.
We grow deliberately slowly. Every new installation gets personal attention. No rush, no scale pressure — quality comes first.
Homer is not a hobby project. It's serious infrastructure, built to last for years.
What Homer is not
Homer doesn't think for you. It executes what you ask.
Your home is yours. Your data too.
Attention is precious. Homer respects that.
Homer isn't polished. It's solid.
Origins
Homer started as a heating controller on a farm in Amsterdam — six heat sources, a Raspberry Pi, and the conviction that it could be done better than anything on the market. That device is still running.
From that origin, Homer grew into a complete system for energy management. The core philosophy remained: technology that serves people, not the other way around.
Homer is what happens when someone builds his own energy system. Not to get rich, but because it simply has to work. For himself, for his family, for everyone who just wants it to work when you ask.
Interested?
We're looking for people who share what we value: privacy, reliability, and technology that works.