Superhome Documentation
Gesture-controlled home automation using your existing RTSP camera and Home Assistant. No cloud, no microphone, no touch, just your hand.
What is Superhome?
Superhome is a Home Assistant app that turns any RTSP camera into a gesture interface for your smart home. It runs a proprietary computer vision pipeline entirely on your local hardware (typically a Raspberry Pi 5 or a mini-PC running Home Assistant OS) and dispatches commands to Home Assistant entities when it recognises hand gestures.
Key properties:
- 100% local: the camera feed never leaves your network
- Proprietary models: work also in complete darkness, at distances up to 9 to 10 m
- Hardware-flexible: runs on a Pi 5 CPU with no GPU
- Native HA integration: controls any HA entity and exposes status sensors consumed by an optional ESP32 display
Prerequisites
| What | Details |
|---|---|
| Home Assistant | Home Assistant OS. Tested on version 2025.x and newer. |
| RTSP camera | Any IP camera with an RTSP stream. The officially tested and supported camera is the TP-Link Tapo C210 (2K). A night-vision camera is recommended for 24/7 use in dark rooms. |
| Host machine | Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB) or any mini-PC running HAOS. |
Next step
→ Get a license key to start the installation.