Questions

Home Assistant running on your home network, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, and your phone for a few minutes during setup, to join PocketOS to your Wi-Fi and connect Home Assistant. PocketOS arrives with its software installed, so there’s nothing to download or install, and the USB-C charging cable is in the box. See What you’ll need.

No. PocketOS is a remote for Home Assistant: your devices, rooms and names all come from there. If you don’t use Home Assistant yet, set that up first.

Through Home Assistant, yes. Anything you’ve added to Home Assistant, such as Hue lights or a Nest thermostat, appears on PocketOS. PocketOS doesn’t connect to those services directly.

No. You set PocketOS up from your phone’s web browser, and there’s no PocketOS account, subscription, advertising or tracking.

PocketOS will cost £99.99 and will be sold in the United Kingdom only to begin with. It isn’t on sale yet. Where to buy will be updated when it is.

The PocketOS Device, a USB-C charging cable and a printed quick start guide. A charger isn’t included. Any USB-C phone charger works.

Lights (brightness, and warmth and colour where the light supports them), switches and plugs, heating and air conditioning, fans, blinds and curtains, locks, speakers and TVs, scenes and scripts. It also shows sensors, such as temperature.

PocketOS joins one Wi-Fi network: your home’s. Away from it, PocketOS shows that you’re out and about, and controls work again when you’re back.

No. PocketOS uses 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi. Most home routers offer both, often under the same network name, so this usually needs no change.

Hold the Boot button, speak, then let go. PocketOS sends what you said to the voice assistant in your own Home Assistant, then shows and says the reply. Voice needs a voice assistant set up in Home Assistant. You can turn spoken replies off on the settings page.

No. It has no wake word. The microphones are only used while you hold the Boot button.

It depends on how you use it: mostly on how long the screen stays on. The screen turns off after 30 seconds by default, and PocketOS shows the battery level and an estimate of the time left, based on your own use.

Yes. Each PocketOS has its own settings, favourites and names, so one in the kitchen and one by the bed can show different things.

Your commands and voice go only to your own Home Assistant. Once a day, PocketOS checks the PocketOS update server for a software update, and sends nothing about you or your home. See Privacy.

PocketOS checks for updates once a day and lets you know when one is ready. You can install it from PocketOS or from the settings page, or turn update checks off. Every update is signed, and PocketOS won’t install one that isn’t. Security updates are provided until at least 31 December 2029.

Start with Support. If PocketOS won’t start properly, Software recovery reinstalls its software from a computer.

See Returns and warranty.