Home Assistant
Home Hariki — a private, self-hosted home automation instance operated by Victor Seiji Hariki and shared with family and friends.
Sign-in uses your own Home Assistant account, not Google. Access is by invitation, and Google is entirely optional.
What this is
Home Hariki runs Home Assistant on privately owned hardware in the operator's home. It brings lights, climate, media players, cameras and sensors from the house together in one dashboard, next to a small self-hosted automation server and a few other tools. It exists so that the household and a handful of friends can control and monitor their own home from a phone or a browser.
It is a personal project, not a product: there is no company behind it, no advertising, no subscription, and no data business of any kind.
Accounts and Google
You sign in to Home Hariki with your own Home Assistant account — a username and password created by the household operator. Google is never used to sign in and is never required to use the house.
Optional Google integrations
This site is also the public home of the private Google integration used by the self-hosted software the operator runs for the household — Home Assistant, the n8n automation server, and similar tools added later. Google is only ever involved when you connect your own Google account from inside one of those tools, to switch on a feature you want. Skipping it changes nothing else.
- Home Assistant — Google Drive for backups, Google Calendar as dashboard entities, Google Nest thermostats and cameras, Google Assistant voice control.
- n8n — automations that you build yourself and that read or write your own Drive files, Sheets, Calendar events or mail.
- Other self-hosted tools — same rule: you connect your account, on purpose, from inside the tool that needs it.
Every integration is separate and has to be connected by you. When you connect one, Google shows its consent screen and you approve the specific permissions that feature needs — nothing more is requested, and nothing is requested for anything you did not set up.
What happens to that data
- The tokens Google issues are stored on the operator's own server and used only to run the feature or workflow you connected.
- Your content stays in your own Google account wherever the feature allows it — backups, for example, are written to your Drive, not copied anywhere else.
- Nothing is sold, shared with advertisers or other users, or used to train machine-learning models.
- You can disconnect an integration in the tool that uses it at any time, or revoke the app on the Google permissions page.
Full details are in the Privacy Policy.
Policies
Contact
Victor Seiji Hariki — victorseijih@gmail.com. Questions about access, your account, or anything on this page can go to that address.