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$10 is an awesome price point. I've never toyed with any of these, but i think i'll pick one up! How long do you think it'll be before i can safely hook up pow

$10 is an awesome price point. I've never toyed with any of these, but i think i'll pick one up! How long do you think it'll be before i can safely hook up powered electronics into a system like RasPi? I'd like to make my home "smart", but i don't want to have random IoT vulnerabilities in my home. So a simple network of tiny linux machines powering desk lights/etc will be plenty for me. However, hooking electronics up is dangerous, so i'd rather wait until a professional makes it accessible to someone like me. Thoughts?

lucaspiller 10y ago
Look into a protocol like z-wave - you can already get switches, outlets, heating controllers etc and it can be done without an internet connection. You can get a USB Z-Wave dongle[0] and then use Home Assistant [1] on a Pi to control everything. [0] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/AEON-AEOEZW090-C-Z-Stick-Gen5/dp/B00YETCNOE/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/AEON-AEOEZW090-C-Z-Stick-Gen5/dp/B0... [1] - https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- draugadrotten 10y ago
  ...and connect the RPi all to Siri and Apple Homekit with https://github.com/tedstriker/homekit2mqtt https://github.com/tedstriker/homekit2mqtt and/or https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant
ericmoritz 10y ago
I would get a Z-Wave daughter board and use Z-Wave devices for controlling the electronics. Z-wave devices aren't Internet connected so you only have to worry about locking down the Pi. Apparently there's already an open source project called Home Assistant for this purpose. https://home-assistant.io/ https://home-assistant.io/
fragmede 10y ago
Something like https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 combined with a flavor of raspberry pi then. The linked product is barebones but the actually dangerous part has already been done for you.

lucaspiller 10y ago

Look into a protocol like z-wave - you can already get switches, outlets, heating controllers etc and it can be done without an internet connection. You can get a USB Z-Wave dongle[0] and then use Home Assistant [1] on a Pi to control everything. [0] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/AEON-AEOEZW090-C-Z-Stick-Gen5/dp/B00YETCNOE/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/AEON-AEOEZW090-C-Z-Stick-Gen5/dp/B0... [1] - https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant

draugadrotten 10y ago
...and connect the RPi all to Siri and Apple Homekit with https://github.com/tedstriker/homekit2mqtt https://github.com/tedstriker/homekit2mqtt and/or https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant

ericmoritz 10y ago

I would get a Z-Wave daughter board and use Z-Wave devices for controlling the electronics. Z-wave devices aren't Internet connected so you only have to worry about locking down the Pi. Apparently there's already an open source project called Home Assistant for this purpose. https://home-assistant.io/ https://home-assistant.io/

fragmede 10y ago

Something like https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 https://www.adafruit.com/products/2935 combined with a flavor of raspberry pi then. The linked product is barebones but the actually dangerous part has already been done for you.