Reliable, professionally configured smart home systems built around Home Assistant and open technologies. Designed for your home, documented properly and engineered to last.
Berry Smart Hub
Scenes, routines and presence control
Smarter schedules and occupancy control
Monitoring, alerts and efficiency insights
Prepared for future local intelligence
Systems designed to work consistently every day.
Your home remains less dependent on outside services.
Built around choice, compatibility and maintainability.
Clear information for ownership and future support.
Engineered for reliability and long-term ownership.
Berry Smart Homes was founded by James Berry to bring professionally engineered smart home systems to homeowners across Norfolk and Suffolk.
After years working with technology and automation, I became frustrated by smart home products that were difficult to maintain and relied heavily on cloud services.
Berry Smart Homes was created to deliver professionally engineered, local-first smart homes that homeowners can rely on every day.
Deep expertise in Home Assistant and the wider open ecosystem.
Privacy-focused systems that you own and control.
Clear documentation for peace of mind.
Local service and responsive support when you need it.
Start with suitable hardware you already own, or choose a supplied Berry Smart Hub. Published prices are starting points, with final quotations based on the property, equipment, integrations, travel and engineering work required.
For customers who already own suitable hardware and want it professionally configured.
Labour-only setup package.
A supplied and configured smart home hub with useful starter devices for straightforward Home Assistant installations.
Hardware and professional setup included.
More performance and a larger included device package for more capable smart home automation, monitoring and future expansion.
Recommended for broader automation and monitoring.
A high-performance local platform designed for advanced smart home automation, supported Frigate camera intelligence, local processing and future voice-assistant capabilities.
Compatible customer-owned heating, CCTV and smart-lighting equipment can be integrated. New bulbs, wall switches, heating controls, cameras and related hardware are quoted separately.
The lasting value of a smart home comes from careful engineering, dependable automation, commissioning, documentation and customer support.
Installation, updates, user accounts, remote access, core integrations, backups and safe initial configuration.
Lighting, heating, presence, schedules, reminders and routines designed around how your household actually lives.
Clean, touch-friendly dashboards that make everyday control straightforward for the whole household.
Appliance monitoring, energy dashboards, useful alerts and practical automations that help reveal energy use.
Automations that respond appropriately to occupancy, household routines and whether anyone is at home.
Zigbee, Matter, MQTT and compatible smart devices brought together within one maintainable platform.
Every project begins with understanding what you want your home to achieve before recommending equipment or technical features.
We discuss your home, existing devices, priorities, budget and the problems you want the system to solve.
You receive a clear proposed scope, recommended package, assumptions, exclusions and project price.
The system is installed, configured, tested, documented and demonstrated before customer handover.
Home Assistant is an open smart home platform that brings compatible devices and services together into one central system. It supports local control and avoids unnecessary dependence on a single manufacturer.
Often, yes. Compatibility will be assessed before quotation. Existing equipment that is unsupported, unreliable or cloud-dependent may require replacement or have limitations.
Local-first features can continue operating without internet access, although some manufacturer applications, cloud services, remote access and voice features may require connectivity.
The Berry Smart Hub Basic, Plus and AI Elite packages include the core computer, Zigbee coordinator and the devices listed within each package. The Customer Provides Computer package is a labour-only service and requires suitable customer-owned hardware.
Compatible customer-owned heating controls, CCTV systems and smart-lighting products can be assessed for integration. New smart bulbs, wall switches, heating controls, cameras, recording equipment and associated installation work are not included unless shown in the quotation.
Yes. Additional compatible sensors, smart plugs and other devices can be supplied and installed at additional cost. The property survey and quotation will confirm suitable quantities and locations.
Unless your quotation states otherwise, installations include 30 calendar days of reasonable post-installation support relating directly to the agreed work.
Berry Smart Homes normally provides on-site installations across Norfolk and Suffolk. Other locations may be considered by separate quotation.
Tell us what you would like your home to do. We will help identify the right starting point and recommend the most suitable Berry Smart Homes package.
