I second the Home Assistant suggestion - I've also been running it for a while now, and it's pretty easy to get the hang of once you've been using it for a whil

I second the Home Assistant suggestion - I've also been running it for a while now, and it's pretty easy to get the hang of once you've been using it for a while. Admittedly I'm definitely a tinkerer myself, but I honestly like the config just being a bunch of YAML files. It's really easy to back up that way.