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title: CatBus
subtitle: a home automation platform built on MQTT
date: 2020-02-20
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CatBus is a home automation platform designed to be low configuration, easily extendable without dependence on the internet, and suitable for automation by multiple independent daemons.

- [design](/catbus-design)
- actuators:
    - [for Energenie relay sockets](https://github.com/ethulhu/mqtt-energenie-bridge)
    - [for `usbrelay`-compatible USB relays](https://github.com/ethulhu/catbus-usbrelay-bridge)
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