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IOT stuff can be great if you follow a couple rules: 1. Everything must have physical controls. If it has power, it must work. For example, if you want to cont
by rhinoceraptor 5y ago
IOT stuff can be great if you follow a couple rules:
1. Everything must have physical controls. If it has power, it must work. For example, if you want to control your lights, don't buy light bulbs, buy light switches.
2. Do not buy Bluetooth or WiFi devices. Use Z-Wave, Zigbee, Lutron Caseta, etc. If you must use WiFi, then it needs to be open firmware, such as Tasmota or ESPHome.
- markvdb 5y agoI chose a similar path on our place, but went a bit further: - cat5e cable to about every sensor or consumer to be automated, star topology - central Olimex esp32 gateway running esphome - some i2c multiplexer boards - old thinkpad running home assistant That should get us all of: - physical controls - cheap - open hardware - running free software - all wired, no wireless - graceful fallback in case of most failures - configuration version controlled