Meta opens the hardware platform of its AI agent Muse for tinkerers: Firmware and software toolkits for custom smart home devices are now available under an open-source license on GitHub. To kick things off, the company is also giving away a Wi-Fi adapter called Muse Home Link to US subscribers – while supplies last.
SDK connects microcontrollers and Linux computers with Muse
The software development kit named Muse Gadgets SDK is available in the repository facebookincubator/muse-gadget-sdk on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license, with exceptions for individual third-party components.
It supports both microcontroller boards based on ESP32 and Linux computers like the Raspberry Pi. Developers can connect displays, buttons, sensors, and actuators to the AI agent Muse – according to the project description, practically everything on the workbench should be controllable.
On the official project page gadgets.muse.ai, Meta lists around a dozen already tested devices, including AMOLED displays from Waveshare, modules from M5Stack, e-paper screens from Seeed, and the Raspberry Pi 5.
For each device, Meta provides purchase links and corresponding source code. Anyone who requests their own SDK token via the project page and accepts the Gadget SDK terms can flash their own devices and pair them with a Muse account.
An accompanying Discord community reportedly has about 155 members who share their own projects and firmware modifications. With this, Meta is stepping away from the path of pure app and cloud products for Muse and opening the device layer for external development.
Muse Home Link brings the agent into the home network
The free Wi-Fi adapter Muse Home Link is intended to connect the agent directly to the home network and control smart home devices that offer an HTTP programming interface. The compact USB-C device is aimed at subscribers who want to use Muse in their daily lives without going through an app or browser.
According to Meta, the adapter is exclusively given away to active Muse subscribers in the USA, limited to one unit per account and on a "first come, first served" basis. Reports suggest that Meta has produced around 5,000 devices for this purpose – a number that has not been independently verified.
Shipping is expected to begin in October.
Outside the USA, it remains unclear whether and when Muse Home Link will become available. For users without access to the free adapter, the software route via the open SDK remains: anyone who owns their own ESP32 or Linux device can also replicate the same connection to Muse without Meta's branded device.
According to the project description, supported devices include smart plugs, lamps, and thermostats that expose a local HTTP interface – a connection to proprietary cloud services is not required for this.
Open hardware also serves as market research for Meta
With the open toolkit, Meta is responding to an environment where competitors are testing their own physical access to AI agents. OpenAI, for example, has already sold its own controller for programming agents with Codex Micro and is reportedly working on a standalone speaker without a screen.
Apple, on the other hand, is sticking to closed hardware and is expected to expand Siri with AI features only in the coming months.
Muse itself is reportedly growing faster than previous agent apps from OpenAI: in iOS downloads, Muse clearly outpaced ChatGPT in the first twelve days.
An open hardware ecosystem can further increase this reach, as tinkerers can try out new use cases for which Meta itself would not have to invest development time. The company had already released an open AI model for local hardware with the model Muse Glimmer – the gadgets initiative now extends this approach from the software to the device level.
For Meta, this initiative is also a cost-effective form of market research: community projects show the company which form factors and sensor combinations are of interest to users before its own series products, such as the Muse Charm pendant announced for December, go into production.
It will be crucial whether Meta expands open access beyond the initial testing phase or controls the hardware layer more tightly once its own branded devices like Muse Charm go into mass production. For developers outside the USA, the only option for now is to use their own ESP32 or Linux devices, as a launch date for Muse Home Link in Europe is still open.
