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Aqualink Automate

Local control of your pool. No cloud.

Local control of Jandy/Zodiac (Fluidra) Aqualink RS and Pentair pool controllers over RS-485 — Web UI, HTTP API, MQTT, and a Matter bridge, with no cloud service required.

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Aqualink Automate

Local control of Jandy/Zodiac (Fluidra) Aqualink RS and Pentair pool controllers over RS-485 — Web UI, HTTP API, MQTT, and a Matter bridge, with no cloud service required.

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Aqualink Automate is a C++ service that talks to your pool equipment over an RS-485 serial link and exposes it on your own network. It reads status from the panel and lets you control it through a built-in Web UI, an HTTP and WebSocket API, MQTT (with Home Assistant discovery), and a Matter bridge for Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, and SmartThings. The web UI is available in nine languages (with full right-to-left support), and community translations are easy to add. Everything runs on hardware you own; nothing is sent to a vendor cloud.

The Aqualink Automate web dashboard

Install

The quickest path is the signed package repositories — install and stay current with your system package manager:

curl -fsSL https://iainchesworthlabs.github.io/aqualink-automate/install-apt.sh | sh
sudo apt install aqualink-automate

curl -fsSL https://iainchesworthlabs.github.io/aqualink-automate/install-dnf.sh | sh
sudo dnf install aqualink-automate

Then sudo apt upgrade / sudo dnf upgrade keeps it current. Builds are provided for amd64 and arm64 (Raspberry Pi). The repositories are GPG-signed with this key.

For pre-built binaries, dev containers, Docker, and building from source, see the Install guide.

Before exposing it on your network

By default the web server binds to 127.0.0.1 (localhost only) and authentication is off. Enable the built-in identity system with --auth-mode enabled (first-run wizard, users/groups, API keys, guest and kiosk access), and review the Security guide and the Configuration reference first.

Where to next

Contributors should start with the Development section.

Supported equipment

Two RS-485 protocols are supported and auto-detected from the wire traffic: Jandy/Zodiac (Fluidra) Aqualink RS and Pentair. The GitHub repository has the full source, issue tracker, and changelog.

Questions and support