Black friday 2025 gladys 🔥

[pierre-gilles]

Hello everyone,

For this Black Friday 2025, I’ve prepared several offers to help you get started (or level up) with Gladys

Mini-PC with Gladys pre-installed

This year, the starter kit is more complete than ever:

• Mini-PC with Gladys already installed
• 6 months free access to Gladys Plus
• Access to the full training to set up your smart home step by step

For Black Friday : –50% on Gladys installation fees

I’m taking advantage of it right now here !

Gladys Plus

Do you already have a Gladys setup and want to go further?

Enjoy –30% off the first year of Gladys Plus.

Or 1 year at €69.99 for Gladys Plus and 1 year at €48.99 for Gladys Plus Lite !

(Offer reserved for new subscribers.)

Gladys Training

I show you how I installed my entire smart home, step by step:

protocols, scenarios, devices, automations… everything’s covered!

For Black Friday : –50%, bringing the training to €34.99.

I hope these offers will help you improve your setup

[prohand]

Hi,

Perfect for new customers who want to get started
Anything planned for existing customers?

[pierre-gilles]

Unless you want a new mini-PC, I don’t have much to offer

But I have some exciting new features coming to the product very soon!! (It’s related to energy )

[prohand]

Ah no, I already have what I need, thanks
I could have thought about renewing Gladys Plus, for example

And I can’t wait for the new features on Gladys

[McFlyPartages]

Hi everyone,

Personally, I would have preferred backup management rather than ChatGPT for the lite version of Gladys Plus.

See you

[pierre-gilles]

I’ll take this opportunity to share here a small selection of the best smart home Black Friday deals I found online. If you see other deals, feel free to share them here!

Domadoo

• NOUS Zigbee smart plug with consumption monitoring at -15%
• Zigbee temperature and humidity sensor with display at -15%
• Sonoff Zigbee dongle -15%
• Sonoff mmWave radar human presence sensor at -15%
• Sonoff Zigbee no-neutral switch at -15%

The full list is available here.

Amazon

Zigbee Hardware

• Aqara P1 Zigbee motion sensor at -20%
• Pack of 4 Sonoff ZBMINIL2 Zigbee smart switches at -31%
• Sonoff Zigbee door and window opening sensor at -29%
• NOUS pack of 4 16A Zigbee smart plugs at -16%

Camera

• Pack of 2 Tapo C210 2k cameras compatible with RTSP at €34.70 (-9%)
• Tapo C210 camera (single) at €17.99 (-5%)

Robot vacuums compatible with Matter

• SwitchBot K11+ robot vacuum with mopping at -14%
• Ecovacs Deebot T80 Omni robot vacuum and mop at -28%
• Roborock Saros 10R at -30%
• Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra at -32%
• Roborock Qrevo Curv at -23%
• Roborock Qrevo Edge at -25%

Matter

• Eve Energy Matter plug on Thread at -30%
• Pack of 2 Meross Matter plugs over Wi-Fi at -5%

@McFlyPartages

Personally, I would have preferred backup management instead of ChatGPT for the Lite version of Gladys Plus.

ChatGPT is not included in the Lite version

Regarding backups, even though DuckDB has significantly reduced database sizes, it remains a cost item and it’s complicated to include it in the Lite offer: each GB stored + replicated across two regions has a recurring price. Back when we used SQLite databases, I even sometimes ran at a loss on some very active accounts because of the backups alone

That said, I could add backups to the Lite plan, but with adapted limits to remain viable: for example, a reduced maximum database size, and only one backup retained (versus 9 in Gladys Plus: 1 per month over the last 6 months + the last 3 days). What do you think?

[McFlyPartages]

@pierre-gilles

ChatGPT is not included in the Lite version

Oops, I read OpenAI instead of OpenAPI.

@pierre-gilles

That said, I could add backups to the Lite plan, but with adjusted limits to keep it viable: for example, a reduced maximum size for the database, and only one backup retained (versus 9 in Gladys Plus: 1 per month over the last 6 months + the last 3 days). What do you think?

I think this could interest people who don’t want AI or similar and be a good base for everyday users (external access and a backup).

It’s an idea, up to you to decide; the backup option could also help you get Gladys Plus subscriptions from a commercial standpoint.

@pierre-gilles

Back when using SQLite databases, I even sometimes lost money on very active accounts because of the size of the backups alone

Yes, storage is expensive

In the end, without replication, you’d have to be pretty unlucky for your installation to fail at the same time as the server backing it up on your side, but you shouldn’t underestimate Murphy’s law

[pierre-gilles]

@McFlyPartages

I think this could interest people who don’t want AI or similar and be a good base for the average user (external access and a backup).

I may be wrong, but for now my feeling is that everyone who has a Gladys installation, who is satisfied with it and who wants to contribute, is perfectly happy to pay €8.33 per month (€99.99 in the annual pack) to support an open-source project and to allow me to spend more time on Gladys I can never thank enough those who contribute in this way and help the project move forward!

The conversion « Gladys » → « Gladys Plus » is pretty good.

I rather feel like I’m having trouble finding new users. Clearly, the biggest challenge today is getting Gladys discovered by more people

[Terdious]

Gladys Plus is also, and above all for me, a support for the project. For my part I am against discount offers on a product that, for €9.99 per month (and €8.33 for those who decide to take the annual => which remunerates the project less), already offers much more than Netflix or many subscriptions.

But this is only my opinion …

[prohand]

Indeed, I agree — I saw it more from the point of view of retaining the people already on Gladys Plus, but maybe that’s not the right solution and maybe there aren’t any for this business model