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+1 to MQTT for home automation. I spent years fiddling with zigbee and z-wave and propietary other things from well-known brands as well as unknown brands from
by mattlondon 5y ago
+1 to MQTT for home automation.
I spent years fiddling with zigbee and z-wave and propietary other things from well-known brands as well as unknown brands from amazon. Nothing ever worked correctly for long periods of time.
Now I have binned all that other crap and migrated to esp8266-based devices that can be flashed to tasmota, and have them all talking via a Raspberry Pi running a MQTT server and OpenHab via docker containers. It is now rock solid in terms of reliability - the only failures come when OpenHab's cloud integration dies, and then I have a backup local http server with a javascript based client that just sends commands directly over MQTT. MQTT really was the missing link for me.
OoenHab has been a pain to use, but that is a different story. I'd not recommend it and I'd ditch it in a heartbeat, but sonfar I am in a "aint broke don't fix it" position.