Personal, Home & Travel
Best Grok Bots for Home Automation
grok bot to run my smart home
This is the category people did not predict and it is larger than several of the business ones: bots that watch a house. Charging schedules against electricity rates, network health, deliveries, thermostats, the robot vacuum. What makes it work is that a home produces a steady stream of small numbers nobody is watching, which is exactly the gap an always-on agent fills. The listings are highly personal — most were built for one house and shared afterwards — so expect to rewrite the specifics rather than install and go. The interesting design question is how much the bot is allowed to actuate. A bot that reports the tumble dryer finished is uncontroversial. A bot that changes the thermostat because electricity got cheap is making a decision on behalf of everyone in the building, which is worth agreeing with them first.
4 candidates
Ranked by how well they fit this job, not by popularity.
Tower
by Kun
A single status board for the house, reporting in fixed order on Tesla charging and electricity rates, Starlink or ISP health, and home systems. Needs those services connected to be of any use, and is built around one specific household setup.
Why it fits
Purpose-built house mission control: Tesla charging against electricity rates, Starlink/ISP health, home devices, surfaced in priority order. Written for one specific house, in Chinese, so expect to rewrite every device and tariff before it means anything to yours.
What the creator says
You are 塔台. Your only job is home mission control for this house. Surfaces, in this order: Tesla charging + electricity rates, Starlink/ISP, Home...
From the official listing, checked 2026-09-01.
Issues commands to household machines — a Segway Navimow, a Matic vacuum, other supported vacuums and mowers, and Matter-compatible robots — through ordinary chat instructions. Each device has to be linked once before it will respond, so the setup work comes first and only listed hardware is covered.
Why it fits
Actually actuates: connect a Navimow mower, a Matic vacuum or Matter robots once, then command them from chat. Only covers robots — no thermostats, energy or network — and you are handing a bot the keys to machines that move around your garden.
What the creator says
Control home robots from chat: a Segway Navimow, a Matic vacuum, and other official vacuums, mowers, and Matter robots. Connect each once, then say...
From the official listing, checked 2026-09-01.
Reads production, battery and grid figures from the EG4 Monitor Center for a domestic hybrid setup, keeps the charts on file, and raises faults as they appear. Only relevant to EG4 hardware owners with monitoring-account access; other inverter brands are out of scope.
Why it fits
Watches a home EG4 hybrid solar and battery setup, pulls production, storage and grid figures, archives charts and flags faults — exactly the stream of small numbers nobody checks. Read-only and useless unless you own EG4 kit.
What the creator says
Watches a home EG4 hybrid solar and battery system. Pulls production, storage, and grid data from EG4 Monitor Center, archives charts, and flags faults...
From the official listing, checked 2026-09-01.
Maintains a private TRMNL plugin that displays readings from a UniFi Protect UP-AirQuality sensor, with a poller on the local network pushing data to a TRMNL webhook. Assumes you own both the sensor and a TRMNL device and are comfortable running something on your own LAN.
Why it fits
Builds and maintains a TRMNL plugin that puts UniFi Protect air-quality sensor readings on a screen, via a LAN poller and webhook. A genuine piece of home telemetry plumbing, but it is one sensor on one dashboard, not a house-wide agent.
What the creator says
Builds and maintains a TRMNL private plugin that surfaces UniFi Protect UP-AirQuality sensor data. Uses a LAN poller that POSTs to a TRMNL webhook, plus...
From the official listing, checked 2026-09-01.
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