Does Alva Link work with Home Assistant, Homey, or other smart home platforms?

Yes. Alva Link includes a bridge mode that exposes your connected energy hardware to Home Assistant, Homey, and other platforms. This means devices that were previously invisible to your smart home, heat pumps locked behind proprietary interfaces, EV chargers with no open API, become accessible for your own custom automations.

If you're a power user who wants to build your own energy flows in Home Assistant, Alva Link gives you the data and control points. If you're not, you'll never know the feature is there, Alva's own optimisation handles everything automatically.

This is fundamentally different from using Homey or Home Assistant as your energy management system. Those platforms are general-purpose smart home hubs. Incredibly powerful, but they require you to build the energy logic yourself. You need to write flows, find integrations, debug connectivity issues, and somehow combine electricity price data, weather forecasts, and device states into a coherent optimisation strategy. Many enthusiasts enjoy this. Most homeowners don't want to.

Alva Link is purpose-built for energy. The optimisation intelligence is built in. You plug it in, and it works. For those who want more control, bridge mode is there. For everyone else, Alva handles it.