Smart home and IoT
The same engine that runs a hardware-verified real-time control loop also runs your house. A presence sensor, a lamp, a heat pump and a servo drive can live in one program — and the house gets the industrial half: determinism, a historian, alarms and a UI you own.
Status Core shipped
Melanite connects to smart-home and IoT devices over MQTT (Shelly, Tasmota, Zigbee2MQTT, ESP32 and anything else that publishes), WLED for addressable LED strips, and Modbus TCP for inverters, meters and HVAC — each exposed as a device with named values alongside industrial I/O. Existing Home Assistant Modbus configs import directly, and the MQTT topic convention deliberately matches Home Assistant's discovery convention. On top of that the same box gives you synchronized multi-room audio and spoken announcements, occupancy tracking from real sensors, and sun and moon position for circadian lighting. Matter is on the roadmap and is not shipped.
An embedded broker plus MQTT as a full device protocol. A Shelly, a Tasmota plug, a Zigbee2MQTT sensor or your own ESP32 becomes a device with named values, HMI bindings, trend charts and logging.
Addressable strips driven directly from logic — solid colour or full spatial per-pixel rendering — and a one-tap flow that turns a blank ESP32 into a configured, adopted light.
Melanite can stand alone or sit alongside Home Assistant over MQTT. Existing Modbus YAML configs import straight in, and the topic conventions match, so nothing has to be re-learned.
PV inverters, energy meters, heat pumps and ventilation units — read and write, verified against real hardware.
Synchronized multi-room playback, Spotify Connect, doorbell and alarm announcements spoken aloud, and an intercom — from the same device, not a second ecosystem.
Sun and moon position with scene-ready direction outputs, sunrise and sunset, daily windows and IEC timers — for blinds, circadian light and irrigation that follow the sky rather than a fixed clock.
Matter (Hue, IKEA, Nanoleaf, Apple and Google ecosystems) via a bridge, and calendar-driven automation. Designed, not shipped.
Watch PV production and steer a load without a cloud account.
How
The inverter and meter are Modbus devices (or a Home Assistant YAML you import); the logic is a graph; the historian records it; and the dashboard is your own HTML at /device. No vendor portal, no subscription, no internet connection required.
Home Assistant is an excellent hub, built for the home: it has no deterministic real-time control and no EtherCAT. Melanite treats your house and your machine as the same problem — and because it runs offline with no account and no phone-home, the house keeps working when the internet doesn't.
It can stand alone or sit alongside Home Assistant over MQTT. Melanite adds deterministic real-time control, industrial protocols, a branded operator UI and a built-in historian that a home hub doesn't have. Existing Home Assistant Modbus configs import directly.
Not yet. Matter is designed and on the roadmap via a bridge, but it is not implemented and we don't list it as a supported protocol. Today the routes in are MQTT, WLED and Modbus TCP.
No. Everything runs on the device, including the MQTT broker, the historian and licence verification. There is no account, no cloud service and no phone-home.
One binary runs every tier — the licence only toggles entitlements, never the feature set.