Status: Experimental public summary
Purpose: architectural discipline for home-lab interactions
HMS-4C is the design frame for how systems in the homelab should behave. It is not the transport, not the implementation, and not a product integration. It defines the principles that should shape every interaction between devices, services, and operators.
The four pillars are:
- Components - the replaceable parts of the system
- Connectors - the interactions and links between parts
- Constraints - the limits that shape acceptable behavior
- Context - the domain-specific meaning behind an interaction
- gives the system a consistent design language
- keeps interactions understandable across device classes
- forces explicit thinking about limits and environment
- makes room for multiple domains without collapsing them into one opaque automation layer
- it does not define a wire protocol
- it does not prescribe a specific vendor platform
- it does not require any single home-automation product
- it does not expose private network details
HMS-4C is the outer frame.
HMS-OSA is the formal architecture definition.
HMSP is the protocol implementation path.
The public project is intentionally architecture-first and implementation-second.