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Beyond™ Home

One remote for the whole house.

The TV, the receiver, the speakers, the lights and the heat pumps in one calm app, room by room. No more ten apps and a basket of remotes. Free, and it works inside your house.

Beyond Home on a laptop: Your home, with Movie night, Morning, Bedtime and Everything off for the Lounge, and a line for every room
BetaBeyond™ Home, in beta

Try it here, then join the beta

A working model with made-up data. Press things. When you want the real one, join the beta and we email you how to get it.

Your home

Lounge remote

32

Volume goes to the TV, where the sound is.

Heat pump 21°
A working model of Beyond™ Home, with a made-up house. Try Movie night.
BetaBeyond™ Home, in beta

Join the Beyond™ Home beta

Free. We email you how to get it, step by step.

Which device will you use it on?

Optional. Leave it unticked and you only hear about this beta. Every email has a link to stop them.

What it does

Everything in plain words. No device names, no settings pages, nothing to program.

  • Rooms, not apps

    Every room in one short line: TV on (Netflix), volume 32, one light on, heat pump 21°. Tap a room for everything in it.

  • One remote

    Volume goes wherever the sound is coming from: the receiver when it's on, otherwise the TV, otherwise the speaker. Power and inputs in the same place.

  • Moments

    Movie night turns the TV and receiver on, sends the sound to the TV and dims the lights. Morning, Bedtime and Everything off, one tap each.

  • Lights and heat pumps

    On and off, brighter and dimmer, warmer and cooler by half a degree. Only the buttons you'd expect, nothing to set up.

  • Your home on the TV

    With Beyond™ TV, your rooms, Moments and the remote are on the big screen. The TV finds the box and shows a code; type it once.

  • Works inside the house

    It talks to your gear over your own Wi-Fi. Every device still works with its own remote and app, so nobody is left out.

  • On the way

    From your phone, anywhere

    In the Beyond™ Family app: the remote at home, and a check that you turned the heat pump off once you've left.

  • On the way

    What the house is using

    One line for the power the house is using now, and a nudge when something's on in an empty room.

The remote that knows where the sound is

Watching Netflix through the receiver? The volume buttons drive the receiver. Receiver off? They drive the TV. Music in the kitchen? The speaker. You never have to think about which box is making the noise.

Movie night does the rest: TV on, receiver on and switched to the TV, lights down to a glow.

The Lounge on a phone: Movie night, Morning, Bedtime, the remote with the sound coming from the Yamaha receiver, and the TV on Netflix
The one remote on a phone: volume down, mute and up for the Yamaha receiver, TV and receiver off, and the input set to TV (ARC)

Works with what you've got

Beyond™ Home sits on Home Assistant, the open home system that already talks to thousands of brands. These are the ones New Zealand homes have most.

  • Yamaha receivers and MusicCast

    Straight over your Wi-Fi

    Works

  • Denon and Marantz

    Straight over your Wi-Fi

    Works

  • Sonos

    Straight over your Wi-Fi

    Works

  • Bluesound and NAD

    Straight over your Wi-Fi

    Works

  • Google TV and Android TV (Sony, TCL, Hisense)

    Straight over your Wi-Fi

    Works

  • LG and Samsung TVs

    Once the TV says yes, one time

    Works

  • Philips Hue, IKEA, LIFX and Matter lights

    Straight over your Wi-Fi

    Works

  • JBL

    Newer models with Google Cast; older soundbars through the TV

    Depends on the model

  • Daikin heat pumps

    Newer units over your Wi-Fi

    Depends on the model

  • Mitsubishi heat pumps

    With a small adapter a technician fits

    Needs a small extra

  • Cheap Wi-Fi bulbs and plugs

    Mostly through their cloud; Matter ones are better

    Depends on the model

  • Old gear with only a remote

    With an infrared blaster

    Needs a small extra

Not on the list? Ask Atlas, or ask us below. If it has an app, there's a good chance it works.

On the way

Power, and a lighter home

Next up: what the house is using, in one line, and the small things that make a difference.

Plugs that measure

A smart plug on the heater or the dryer shows what that one thing uses. The easy way to start.

The whole house, live

A small monitor in the switchboard, fitted by an electrician. New Zealand smart meters don't send a live reading into the house, so this is the way to see it as it happens.

Solar and batteries

Most inverters already report inside the house, so Beyond™ Home can say when the panels are covering everything and that's the time to run the dishwasher.

Small wins, no guilt

Heat pumps off in empty rooms, the EV charging when power is cheapest on your own plan. We'll never claim a saving we can't measure.

Privacy is everything

What happens at home stays at home

Your home's remote. It runs on a box in your house, and Beyond™ Home itself talks to nobody outside it.

  • It stays in the house

    Beyond™ Home talks to your TV, sound and lights over your own Wi-Fi and sends nothing to us. Gear that works inside the house keeps working when the internet is down.

  • The app, never the show

    It knows a TV is on Netflix, never what you are watching or listening to.

  • Only the TVs you add

    A TV joins with a code you type in, keeps its own key, and only gets an answer from inside the house. Take it off and it stops straight away.

  • Only what you can press

    It can only do what the buttons do: on and off, volume, inputs, lights and heat pumps. Nothing else on your devices can be changed.

How we keep every Beyond™ screen private

Get it

About five minutes on a box you already have, then ten while it sets itself up. Or we can do it for you.

  1. A Home Assistant box

    A small always-on box that lives by the router: a Home Assistant Green is the easy one, or a Raspberry Pi 5. Plug it in and follow its own setup.

  2. Add Beyond™ Home

    Add Beyond™ Home to your box
    Use a phone or laptop on your home Wi-Fi. Your box opens and asks if you want to add Beyond™ Home: press Add.
    Add to my box Opens homeassistant.local:8123

    Your router's app lists it as homeassistant, or look on the Home Assistant app under Settings, System, Network. It stays in this browser, never sent to us.

  3. Put things in rooms

    Home Assistant finds your TV, receiver and lights by itself and offers them under Settings, Devices. Say yes, and put each one in a room. Beyond™ Home shows them room by room.

Rather we set it up?

Tell us what's in your lounge and we'll be in touch about setting Beyond™ Home up for you: the box, your gear in the right rooms, and Movie night working before we leave.

The software stays free, always.

A real person replies, usually within one working day.

Beyond™ Home is free and open source (GPL-3.0), and runs alongside Home Assistant (Apache 2.0), unchanged. Not affiliated with Home Assistant, Nabu Casa, Yamaha, JBL or any other brand named here; names belong to their owners. Brand support checked 23/10/2026.