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Runs on your own hardware
Home Assistant lives on your network. With a local AI model in front, the data never leaves the house.
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Smart home · self-hosted
Wire Getwello into the rest of your house.
Home Assistant is the most flexible self-hosted home-automation platform. Connect it to Getwello and the kitchen Sonos can softly announce check-ins, the porch light can nudge a missed day, and your watch can buzz the moment things go quiet.
Coordinator-only. Included in the £4.99 plan. Same day to set up.
homeassistant.local:8123/lovelace/family
Mum's check-in
08:14Today · Well · Mood fine
Kitchen Sonos
Announced “Mum has just checked in”
Volume 25%, 0.8s ago
Porch light
Idle
Triggers if no check-in by 10:00
This week
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Why this fits
Self-hosted, ambient, private, free.
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Ambient, never another phone ping
A speaker, a lamp, a chime. Reassurance without one more notification to clear from the lock screen.
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Real-time, not polling
Webhooks fire the moment a check-in lands. Automations react in seconds, not on a 5-minute schedule.
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No extra subscription
Both Getwello (£4.99) and Home Assistant (free) are already paid for. The integration costs nothing.
# automations.yaml
- alias: "Getwello check-in announce"
trigger:
- platform: webhook
webhook_id: getwello_check_in
condition:
- "{{ trigger.json.event == 'check_in.created' }}"
action:
- service: tts.cloud_say
target:
entity_id: media_player.kitchen_sonos
data:
message: >-
Mum has just checked in.
- service: media_player.volume_set
target:
entity_id: media_player.kitchen_sonos
data:
volume_level: 0.25The morning, in your house
08:14, the Sonos quietly says it.
Sarah is making lunches. The kitchen Sonos says 'Mum has just checked in' at low volume. No phone in hand, no notification cleared, the whole morning's worry handled in three seconds. None of this is dramatic. That is the point.
- Sonos kitchen group, volume calibrated low.
- Porch-light reminder lit at 10:00 if no check-in yet.
- Apple Watch via Pushover for missed days, Critical priority.
- Family Room messages mirrored to your private channel.
How to set it up
The high level. Full walkthrough in the help guide.
- 01Step 1 of 4
Mint a Getwello API key.
Open Settings → Developer API as a Coordinator, name the key 'Home Assistant on the home server', copy the gw_live_ token.
- 02Step 2 of 4
Create a webhook subscription.
Same page, scroll to Webhooks. URL is https://<your-ha>/api/webhook/getwello_check_in. Tick check_in.created and check_in.missed at minimum.
- 03Step 3 of 4
Drop the YAML into Home Assistant.
Add the webhook trigger automation to automations.yaml. Store the signing secret in secrets.yaml. Reload automations.
- 04Step 4 of 4
Wire up the speaker, light or watch.
Inside the automation, the action is anything Home Assistant supports: TTS to a Sonos, an LED colour change, a Pushover to your watch, a Slack relay. The recipe is up to you.
Frequently asked questions
Does Home Assistant need to be reachable from the internet?
Yes. Our servers need to reach the webhook URL. The cleanest options are Home Assistant Cloud (around £6/month via Nabu Casa) or a free Cloudflare Tunnel. Both let our webhook reach your local HA without you opening any ports.
What if Home Assistant is offline when a check-in fires?
The event is logged as a delivery failure on our side. After 5 consecutive failures the subscription auto-disables and waits for you to come back to the settings page. A proper retry queue with exponential backoff is on the roadmap.
Can I verify the webhook came from Getwello?
Yes. Every webhook is signed with HMAC-SHA256 using the signing secret you copy when creating the subscription. The recipe in the help guide includes a verify step that rejects requests with missing or invalid signatures, or timestamps older than 5 minutes.
Does this work with Hubitat, openHAB or other home-automation systems?
Yes. The webhook is just an HTTPS POST. Any platform that can listen to a webhook can react. We feature Home Assistant because the audience overlap is biggest, but the recipe is portable.
Will this work if Mum's on Android, not iPhone?
Yes. Getwello has live iPhone and Android apps; both fire the same webhook events when a check-in lands. Your Home Assistant setup is identical regardless of the Check-in Member's phone.
Other integrations
Pair this with another.
Some families wire two or three at the same time. The webhook fans out, the API keys stay the same.
- Amazon AlexaEven simpler if you have an Echo.
- Claude DesktopAsk Claude how the week has been.
- SlackMirror messages to a family channel.
- Apple ShortcutsHey Siri, has Mum checked in?
See every integration or jump to the Developer API overview.
Connect Getwello to Home Assistant.
Today.
Mint your first API key in two minutes. Coordinator-only. Included in the £4.99 family plan.
