🔌 Smart Home & IoT Devices

Your home,
smarter and safer.

OzBits builds connected devices that monitor your space, protect what matters, and keep you informed — from anywhere in the world.

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Local-first, no cloud lock-in
Product Lineup

Everything you need to
automate and protect your space.

From plant care to home safety — OzBits devices work locally, send you alerts, and give you control from anywhere.

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Web App Device Coming Soon

Garage Minder

Your garage, always under control. Garage Minder monitors your garage door in real time and lets you open or close it remotely — from your phone, your smart home, or automatically when you arrive or leave. Voice call alerts, geofencing, door history, and Home Assistant support all built in.

📱 Open Web App →

Works on any phone — install from your browser, no app store needed.

  • Real-time OPEN / CLOSED / MOVING status on your phone
  • Car presence detection — knows if your car is in the garage
  • Open or close from anywhere via Android app
  • 3-car garage ready — up to 3 units sync sonar automatically, zero cross-interference
  • Name each bay — "Left Bay", "Right Bay" shown in app and Home Assistant
  • Auto-open when you arrive home — geofence trigger
  • Auto-close when you leave — never forget again
  • Auto-close after door is left open X minutes
  • Scheduled trigger: open in 5, 10, 20, or 30 minutes
  • Voice call alert when door is left open too long
  • Push notifications — free forever, no subscription
  • Full door event history — see every open & close with timestamps
  • Easy BLE setup — connects to your WiFi in seconds via app
  • Works with most standard garage door openers
  • OTA firmware updates — new features delivered automatically
  • 10 free voice call trial included with every device
🏡 Home Assistant Native MQTT Auto-Discovery

Enter your broker address in the app once — Garage Minder publishes full discovery configs automatically. Five entities per bay appear in HA instantly, no YAML required. In a 3-car garage each bay gets its own named set of entities.

🚪 Garage Door cover 🚗 Car Present binary_sensor 📏 Garage Distance sensor · cm 📍 Phone Distance sensor · m 🏠 Phone at Home binary_sensor 🏠 × 3 bays per unit, named
Automation ideas
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Arrive & illuminate
Door opens → garage lights on. No stumbling in the dark. Lights off automatically once the door closes again.
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Protect your HVAC
Door open > 10 minutes → pause the AC. Stop paying to cool the neighborhood when someone forgot to close up.
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Welcome home scene
Phone at Home flips on → disarm alarm, set thermostat, turn on entry lights, play your arrival playlist. One trigger, everything ready.
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Security: door left open
Nobody home (Phone at Home = away) + door open → instant notification. Add auto-close for zero-worry security.
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Goodnight check
Bedtime routine checks door state — if open, close it automatically and send a notification so you know it was handled.
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Your ETA on the dashboard
Phone Distance sensor on a Lovelace card shows how far you are from home in real time. Start dinner at 5 km, warm the garage at 1 km.
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Car or truck?
The sonar reads a different distance depending on vehicle height. Use the Garage Distance sensor in an HA template to tell whether the car or the truck is parked inside — no extra hardware.
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3-bay dashboard
One Lovelace card per bay — Left Bay, Center Bay, Right Bay — each with its own cover entity, car sensor, and distance gauge. Full 3-car garage at a glance.
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In Development Coming Soon

GrowSense

Passive 433 MHz monitoring for gardens, greenhouses, and grow rooms. GrowSense listens to wireless soil, weather, and rain sensors out of the box — no pairing, no Bluetooth, no Zigbee. Just power it on and your sensors appear on the dashboard at growsense.local.

Everything runs on your local network. The dashboard, automations, and smart plug control all work without any cloud account — because your plants don’t need the internet to get watered.

🎙️ GrowSense & the Local-First Rebellion
433MHz soil moisture sensor probes compatible with GrowSense
  • 【EXPANDABLE 20-ZONE MONITORING】 Monitor your entire garden from one convenient indoor screen. Starts with 1 included wireless sensor, expandable up to 20. Perfect for raised beds, vegetable rows, potted plants, and lawns.
  • 【PRO-GRADE TDR ACCURACY】 Powered by Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) and stainless-steel triple probes — stable, professional-level soil moisture readings that resist interference from salinity or soil composition.
  • 【230 FT WIRELESS RANGE】 Transmits up to 230 ft in open areas — check plant status from your kitchen without stepping outside. Walls and obstacles may reduce range.
  • 【IPX5 WATERPROOF】 Built for the outdoors — withstands rain, sprinklers, and morning dew. Designed for soil use only; not suitable for liquids or loose media like perlite, coco coir, or gravel.
  • 【READY TO USE】 2×AAA batteries included for instant setup. 8–12 months of runtime per set.
GrowSense dashboard showing 6 active sensors, weather channels, soil moisture, temperature, light, and smart plug controls
  • Passive RF — sensors just transmit, GrowSense listens. No pairing, no apps, no accounts
  • Sensors run on 2 AA batteries — low energy design lasts up to a year per set
  • Soil moisture, temperature, light & battery tracked per sensor automatically
  • Weather station support — temperature & humidity from 433 MHz weather sensors
  • Rain gauge tracking — Today, Yesterday, 7-day, Monthly and YTD totals
  • Local web dashboard at growsense.local — works on any phone or browser on your network
  • 4 automations per sensor — trigger smart plugs, send voice calls, SMS, or email
  • Kasa & Shelly smart plug control built in — no extra hub needed
  • Home Assistant MQTT auto-discovery — zero YAML required
  • GrowRelay range extender — place anywhere, forwards sensor data over WiFi
  • OTA firmware updates from the dashboard
Greenhouse Greenhouse
Plantation Plantation
Indoor Indoor
Garden Garden
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In Development Coming Soon

Stove Guardian

Peace of mind for your kitchen. Stove Guardian monitors your stove and sends you an alert if it's been left on — so you never have to wonder "did I forget to turn it off?" from the office, school, or across town.

  • Detects stove left on after you leave
  • Push notification, SMS & voice call alerts
  • Configurable alert delay (5, 15, 30 min)
  • No smart stove required — works with any stove
  • Simple plug-in setup, no wiring
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In Development Coming Soon

CallCue

Just say the word. CallCue is a voice-activated alert system that lets someone call for help from another room — no phone, no app, no button. Say the trigger word and an instant alert beeps, flashes, or vibrates on a nearby receiver. Ideal for home care, workshops, garages, and anywhere hands-free assistance matters.

  • Voice-triggered — say "Help", "Call", or a custom word
  • Room-to-room alerts via beep, LED flash, or vibration
  • Two-device system: Sender + Receiver — no hub needed
  • No phone, account, or subscription required
  • Designed for elderly care, solo work, and home caregiving
About OzBits

Built by makers,
for everyday people.

OzBits started with a simple problem: why is smart home technology still so complicated, expensive, and dependent on apps and cloud subscriptions you don't control?

We build devices that work the way technology should — reliably, locally, and without requiring a monthly subscription just to turn on a switch. Every OzBits device runs its own web interface, works on your local network, and sends you alerts when it matters.

Currently based in the US, we're a small team shipping our first products and building the lineup one device at a time.

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Local First

Your devices work on your network without phoning home. No cloud dependency, no account required for core features.

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Alerts That Matter

Voice calls, SMS, and email notifications when something needs your attention — not endless push notifications for nothing.

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Easy Setup

Plug in, connect to Wi-Fi, open a browser. No app downloads, no complex configuration, no special hub required.

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Always Improving

OTA firmware updates keep your device current long after purchase. New features ship automatically.

Our Philosophy

Local-first, always.

OzBits is a technology company specializing in smart home and Internet of Things devices that prioritize local-first control over cloud-based subscriptions. Our product philosophy centers on user privacy and independence, offering hardware like the SproutKeeper plant monitor and specialized smart plugs that function without external accounts or internet dependencies.

Our roadmap spans kitchen safety sensors, garage controllers, and commercial-scale agricultural tools designed for professional fleet management — all built around open APIs and straightforward web interfaces, for consumers who want reliable automation without the subscription tax.

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Your network, your rules

OzBits devices run entirely on your local network. No data leaves your home unless you choose. No account required for core features.

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No lock-in

Open protocols — MQTT, HTTP, REST. Your devices work with Home Assistant, Node-RED, and any tool you already use. We don't build walls.

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Maker-built

Built by engineers who got fed up with overpriced, overcomplicated IoT. We make things the way we'd want to use them.

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OzBits Podcast

OzBits, SproutKeeper & the Local-First Rebellion

The story behind why we build the way we build — and why local-first matters more now than ever.

🇺🇸 English — OzBits ends cloud dependency with SproutKeeper
🇺🇸 English — OzBits, SproutKeeper & the Local-First Rebellion
🇲🇽 Español — Tu casa inteligente sin la nube
🇨🇳 中文 — 无需联网的硬核植物管家
🇵🇭 Filipino — OzBits at ang lokal na smart home
🚗 English — Ending Garage Door Anxiety with Garage Minder
🚗 Español — Telemetría y automatización para tu garaje
🎮 Just for Fun

OzBlaster

Blast the incoming fleet. Arrow keys / WASD · Space to fire · X = 4-way · F = shield · M = mute

A space shooter built by the OzBits team.

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