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Ask HN: What smarthome ecosystem is most open, private, and hackable?
As the title suggests.
I walked into a Home Depot yesterday to buy a lightbulb, and was overwhelmed by all the "smart" bulbs with different smarthome service names.
Yes, I do want a "smart" bulb. I want to be able to write some python that can control all the lights in my house.
But I'm wary of anything that needs a round-trip across the internet to turn on my reading lamp. I just want a local network of devices that I can easily control, without fear that a firmware update next month will close them off.
- smoldesu 3y agoI've heard good things about Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://www.home-assistant.io/
- Tomte 3y agoYou install HomeAssistant on a spare computer or a Raspberry Pi and then buy whatever HomeAssistant has an interface/a plugin for. Hue, IKEA, Apple Homekit, whatever. There is a huge community interfacing with almost everything.
- suyula 3y agoYou want Home Assistant, and a Zigbee USB dongle supported by Zigbee2MQTT.
- gtirloni 3y agoas others have said, homeassistant. check the integrations: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#light https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#light