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Offline PsiTopic starter

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Section for Home Automation
« on: November 15, 2024, 04:41:01 am »
I saw in a recent video Dave was setting up Home Assistant to play with, and I'm also using HA.
Just wondering if there might be enough demand for a home automation section on the forum.

I would be down for a Home Automation section.

There's lots of electronics engineering and hackery being done in Home Automation.
Reflashing consumer Wifi/BT/Zigbee wall plugs, lighting controllers, dimmers to run locally instead of routing everything through china. (ESPHome, tasmota etc..)

I'm actually reflashing some Shelly devices to ESPHome while writing this, just waiting for Home Assistant to finish compiling ESPHome firmware.

https://www.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-2pm

Today's lesson is, use 64bit RPi and 64bit home assistant, for some reason the 32bit version has a broken build chain for ESPHome ESP32-C3 using the esp-idf framework
« Last Edit: November 15, 2024, 05:03:54 am by Psi »
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Offline Halcyon

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Re: Section for Home Automation
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2024, 08:44:26 am »
I'd support this. I think it's becoming quite a popular thing and niche in and of itself.

I don't have the authority to make the call. Entirely on Dave.
 

Online John B

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Re: Section for Home Automation
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2024, 09:09:36 am »
Yeah there's a ton of specific topics within home automation, especially when talking about purely local control.

I run a Home Assistant test setup, but my favourite software, and the one I think I will permanently implement is OpenHAB.

I've made my own network of lights, motion sensors, rollershutters etc over an RS485 network connected to a RPi. It's also further expandable by the local network for any other communication like MQTT messages.

There's a ton of stuff to brainstorm.
 

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Re: Section for Home Automation
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2024, 08:35:21 pm »
I think it's a good idea.
 


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