The Onwords Living Home OS: Your Whole Home, Run by One Operating System
Most smart homes are a pile of separate gadgets that each do their own thing. An Onwords Living Home is not built that way. It runs on the Onwords Living Home OS, a single operating system for the whole house. Your lights, climate, security, gate and scenes all run on one brain that Onwords builds, installs ready to use, keeps updated on its own, and supports for the long term.
A home needs an operating system
Your phone and your laptop each run on one operating system. A home with dozens of connected things deserves the same: one system that ties everything together so it behaves as a whole, not as a drawer of separate apps. When one brain is in charge, the house stops feeling like a shelf of gadgets and starts feeling like a single, considered place.
What the Onwords Living Home OS is
The Onwords Living Home OS is the software brain of every Onwords Living Home, made by Onwords. It runs inside your home, connects all your devices, and powers the Living Home app you use every day. One home, one system, one place everything lives.
One home, one system, one place everything lives.
One OS core, connecting the whole home
Every part of the house connects back to a single core. That is what turns separate devices into one home that behaves as a whole.
One core, running locally, tying every room together
How the Onwords Living Home OS comes to your home
Four steps, in order, from setup to long-term support.
- 01
Onwords sets it up
Onwords prepares the Living Home OS for your home, branded as yours, and installs it during your smart home setup so it is ready before handover.
- 02
It connects your whole home
The OS links your lights, climate, security, gate and scenes into one system that you control from the Living Home app.
- 03
It updates itself
New features and fixes arrive quietly in the background over time, so your home keeps improving after the install.
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Onwords supports it for the long term
Onwords looks after the OS remotely and supports it for years, so your home stays healthy and keeps getting better.
It arrives ready
When Onwords sets up your home, the OS comes already prepared and branded as yours. There is no piecing together and no weekend of setup. It is installed, provisioned and working before we hand it over, and you simply start using it.
It updates itself and looks after itself
The OS improves over time on its own. New features and fixes arrive quietly in the background, and Onwords can check on your home remotely to keep it healthy, so your home keeps getting better after the install, not worse.
New features and fixes arrive in the background, with nothing for you to chase.
Onwords can check on your home and keep it healthy, so small things stay small.
It runs locally, so it stays fast and private
The brain lives in your home, so day to day control stays quick and keeps working through everyday network hiccups, while you still get secure access from anywhere.
Fast at home, secure from anywhere, steady through everyday network hiccups.
Built to grow with you, and supported for years
Start with a few rooms and add more over time, all on the same system. Because it is one platform that Onwords owns and supports, your home is looked after for the long term, not left behind. When you are ready, explore Onwords Living Homes or get a smart home quote.
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It is the operating system that runs every Onwords Living Home. Made by Onwords, it lives inside your home, connects all your devices into one system, and powers the Living Home app you use to control everything.