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Curious: what tech stack did you land on? I haven't implemented much "smart" tech yet, but would be nice to know if there are some good open options out there.
by e12e 7y ago
Curious: what tech stack did you land on? I haven't implemented much "smart" tech yet, but would be nice to know if there are some good open options out there.
- Havoc 7y agoHome Assistant. If you're comfortable with a bit of tinkering that's overall a good choice. Currently using a tinkerboard, but would probably be looking to virtualise this >"smart" tech yet Smartplugs and smart lightbulbs are pretty easy. Things start getting a bit ugly on presence detection though - i.e. who is home and where. Haven't seen anything reliable on that front. The other headache to think about is standby mode. Many things these days can't be controlled via smartplugs because they go into standby mode...not on mode
- Havoc 7y ago2nd comment because I remembered some additional tips: 1) If you're considering a device...google the device name & github. Generally if I can find some github code of someone managed to get this to talk to python then we're probably OK to buy 2) The Xiaomi equivalent (Yeelight) of Philips Hue Lights are really good quality/value for money. If you can swallow the associated question marks on brand I'd go that route. 3) Basically everything is gonna require an app on phone initially and it will phone home...so you'll need a FW to block this after you got it to talk to local home assistant server 4) Some of these things like zigbee...frequency depends on country so look carefully what you're buying. 5) Most of this tech doesn't like 5ghz