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Could you recommend some resources to get skilled with such suff? Also what tech stack you are using? (both hardware and software)

acidburnNSA 7y ago
Hardware: * Raspberry Pi (I've since moved to a Ubuntu server, but Pi was perfectly capable on this entire setup) * Aeotech Z-wave z-stick (for controlling the wireless sensors) * Lots of z-wave sensors (door, motion, temperature, humidity, flood, one that listens for my smoke alarms going off, a whole house power sensor in the circuit breaker box, ...) * Lots of z-wave switches (some where I replaced light switches with smart switches, others where I just piggied a z-wave relay between the wall and the thing) * A few Phillips HUE lights for fun color BS * an old 433 MHz temperature sensor that the previous tenant left without the weather station (read through a $5 USB TV receiver) * Another Raspberry pi sitting on my stereo hooked to Snapcast to pipe synchronized wifi audio throughout the house from a single source. * Mopidy as the central music server to pipe stuff through Snapcast * OpenWRT router running some scripts for presence detection * Cellphones via web interface for control * Also a fun little LED dot-matrix display for fun displays * A few Amcrest IP cameras (with cloud crap disabled) Software is very Home Assistant heavy, with lots of little auxiliary scripts, some home-built, many others from other enthusiasts. The central community is the Home Assistant crew. But also: * MQTT on a remote MQTT broker ($5 VPS) for communicating with external devices (like my mom's house and my cellphone when off-site) * Owntracks for GPS-driven automations * Self-hosted e-mail (totally unnecessary, just a hobby) I think that's about it. For getting started, yeah just start small. Get a z-wave usb stick and a pi and a few little sensors. Hook it up to your stereo and wifi and start fiddling based on the examples from home-assistants forum and docs. Then it just slowly bootstraps up to something elaborate, if you're enjoying it.

acidburnNSA 7y ago

Hardware: * Raspberry Pi (I've since moved to a Ubuntu server, but Pi was perfectly capable on this entire setup) * Aeotech Z-wave z-stick (for controlling the wireless sensors) * Lots of z-wave sensors (door, motion, temperature, humidity, flood, one that listens for my smoke alarms going off, a whole house power sensor in the circuit breaker box, ...) * Lots of z-wave switches (some where I replaced light switches with smart switches, others where I just piggied a z-wave relay between the wall and the thing) * A few Phillips HUE lights for fun color BS * an old 433 MHz temperature sensor that the previous tenant left without the weather station (read through a $5 USB TV receiver) * Another Raspberry pi sitting on my stereo hooked to Snapcast to pipe synchronized wifi audio throughout the house from a single source. * Mopidy as the central music server to pipe stuff through Snapcast * OpenWRT router running some scripts for presence detection * Cellphones via web interface for control * Also a fun little LED dot-matrix display for fun displays * A few Amcrest IP cameras (with cloud crap disabled) Software is very Home Assistant heavy, with lots of little auxiliary scripts, some home-built, many others from other enthusiasts. The central community is the Home Assistant crew. But also: * MQTT on a remote MQTT broker ($5 VPS) for communicating with external devices (like my mom's house and my cellphone when off-site) * Owntracks for GPS-driven automations * Self-hosted e-mail (totally unnecessary, just a hobby) I think that's about it. For getting started, yeah just start small. Get a z-wave usb stick and a pi and a few little sensors. Hook it up to your stereo and wifi and start fiddling based on the examples from home-assistants forum and docs. Then it just slowly bootstraps up to something elaborate, if you're enjoying it.