Home automation
December 16, 2024 — August 24, 2024
Upon persuading the gizmos in your home to talk to one another.
See also home networks.
I feel like this should be easy, but my experience of using Apple and Amazon devices has been that they never do what I want. Also there are standards wars between various proprietary apps, and the whole thing looks like a security nightmare.
1 Dongles for bluetooth, zigbee, thread, etc
2 home-assistant
A DIY option: Home Assistant. Turn a little raspberry pi into a home automation hub.
The rule of thumb seems to be that Zigbee has the most support for generic hubs, followed by Matter
3 Thread and Matter
- nRF Util - Nordic Semiconductor Infocenter
- nRF5 SDK downloads (If you find yourself doing this and you are not a developer of IoT technology this is a red flag I think)
- Create an RCP USB dongle | Golioth Thread Demo (Lazy mode firmware)
4 Securing doors
TBC
5 Meross devices
Cheap on Amazon. Can sorta work with Homekit. Pair using an Apple HomeKit device, then integrate as a “homekit device”
6 Tuya devices
If you must use these, and don’t like their suspicious cloud-based app, you can try to use them locally.
- PlusPlus-ua/ha_tuya_ble: Home Assistant support for Tuya BLE devices (bluetooth only)
- tuya-local/DEVICES.md at main · make-all/tuya-local (friendly)
- rospogrigio/localtuya: local handling for Tuya devices (broad)
It seems like they will still report back to their corporate masters over your wifi though.