open hardware for the smart home
Novelty Factor Technologies LLC exists because smart home hardware shouldn't be a black box. We design around open firmware (ESPHome) and open protocols, so every device we ship stays useful, inspectable, and hackable long after we've moved on to the next one.
Stream Daddy, Stream Mama and Stream Kiddo are our first three devices, built for whole-home audio streaming - and they're just the start. More open smart home hardware is already in the works.
Our devices are made to work with Music Assistant, the free, open source music server from the Open Home Foundation. It runs on a Raspberry Pi, a home computer or Home Assistant, brings your streaming services, local files and radio into one library, and plays it on every speaker in the house, whatever brand they are.
The glue between them is Sendspin, an open standard for whole-home audio that keeps every speaker in sync. Stream Kiddo is a Sendspin speaker: it plays whatever Music Assistant sends it, in step with the rest of the house. Stream Daddy and Stream Mama are Sendspin players too, and they also work the other way round. Plug in a turntable, a CD player or any line-out and they stream what they hear to Music Assistant, so it can play on every speaker you own.
Music Assistant and Sendspin are projects of the Open Home Foundation.
Stream any line-level audio source over your network
From $125
Thinner version of Stream Daddy with 3.5mm Jacks
From $100
Turn any speaker or amp into a networked audio endpoint
From $75
We're just getting started - new open hardware for the smart home is already in the works.
