Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Best way to connect everything. [Smart Home] (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by DarkJediSkii@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Looking to incorporate more smart home features into my house and I am hoping to find a central hub or connection point where I can manage everything instead of using multiple apps for each brand.

Currently my home is equipped with a smart home lock, doorbell and is wired for ADT services. It also has deako paddle switches, which I was told are not the ones that connect to the network.

Here is a list of devices/areas that I would like to incorporate into my smart home features:

Smart home lock
Doorbell
ADT services
Eventually switch the deako paddle switches to their smart switches.
Outlets that allow me to remotely control (like during vacations)
Ceiling fans
Ceiling lighting
Garage door
Sprinkler system

Im sure I will eventually add more to this list, but I would like to first begin to incorporate everything into an easier to manage central hub.

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[–] Z-Waver@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

HomeSeer, openHAB, HomeAssistant... there are many good controllers available that integrate a large amount of the various smart home devices..

Based on how you said that you had too many different apps, I'm thinking that you might have some of the proprietary, cloud only, devices. You may need to change some of your existing kit to something more compatible with third-party controllers.