How it works — press the buttons
Two working models, like the exhibits at a power-station visitor centre. The first shows how a phone out in the world reaches a bulb at home — and why we never open a hole in your router to do it. The second is the failover playground: cut the power, crash the Pi, burn things down, and watch who takes over. No marketing gloss — the corners where nothing can save you are on the board too.
Reaching your bulb from the outside world
A home network is a walled garden: the router lets calls out, never uninvited calls in. Pick a path and watch how each one gets around that.
The glowing cable is the active path. Tap the light sends a packet down it — watch where it gets through, and where it bounces.
Always keep a manual backup plan: wall switches that still work, and a metal key in your pocket.
The failover playground
Their home on the left, Vome on the right, you at the top. The Pi runs the home and trickles encrypted backups into the vault; the standby VM can boot from them if the Pi dies. Pick cold or hot standby, then break things — click the machines on the board itself, or use the switches below.
Glowing cables show the active path; moving dots mean data is flowing (a tap, or backups syncing). Everything on the board is clickable. The same diagram shape is planned for a per-server status page when something breaks.
Always keep a manual backup plan: wall switches that still work, and a metal key in your pocket. No provider — us included — can switch a bulb in a house with no power or no way in.
Prefer it in words?
Everything these boards show is written up properly elsewhere: the recovery & protection guides walk every scenario step by step (including what happens in a failover and the whole-home-offline case), the services page prices the CHAP standby and off-site backup plans, and the security page covers the token, audit and no-open-ports model the first exhibit demonstrates, and the remote-access exhibit walks the LAN tunnels hop by hop and compares them honestly with mesh VPNs like Tailscale and NetBird.
The honest summary: smart homes fail in layers. Local control should survive an internet outage, a standby should survive a dead Pi, off-site backups should survive a fire — and a wall switch and a metal key should survive absolutely everything.