Scrypted is like Tasker for home automation, integrates with Google Home, Alexa, and HomeKit

There are a plethora of different home automation platforms like SmartThings, HomeKit, Wink, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and many more. Some of them play together nicely, but once you’re mixing and matching, you’re going to end up with a bunch of apps and hubs to control all of your devices, and some features just won’t work with the provided software. Koushik Dutta (or Koush), the developer of beloved tools like ClockworkMod, has run into these limitations. To overcome his issues, he simply created a smart home hub himself that allows users and developers to script their own actions to interconnect their devices, similar to Tasker. Enter Scrypted.

The service is live as an app on the Play Store. It turns any machine running Android into a smart home hub, be it an old Android phone you can leave plugged in constantly, an Android TV box, or even a Raspberry Pi running Android Things. Once you’ve installed the app, you have the option to sign in with your Google Account so you can connect the platform to Google Home. Below, there’s an IP address from which you can manage your smart home devices. That’s all there is to see and do on your Android device. I personally chose my…