If you are interested in DIY home automation, you should definitely follow Jon Oxer at https://www.superhouse.tv/ https://www.superhouse.tv/ One of his biggest

If you are interested in DIY home automation, you should definitely follow Jon Oxer at https://www.superhouse.tv/ https://www.superhouse.tv/ One of his biggest guiding principles which I strongly share is not needing an Internet connection for your house to work - which rules out most commercial home automation stuff that needs to talk back to home base. He uses a lot of arduino and sonoff more recently. Also runs a lot of stuff with power over ethernet. All interesting stuff. Lately he has been working a lot on understanding assistive technology hardware (e.g. wheelchair controller joysticks) and creating additional open hardware and software that can interface with them. Well worth going back through his many years of material if you want to get into this sort of thing.