#Hi guys the past month I am learning
dim saddle
https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Ahome-assistant-config&type=Repositories has a bunch of live configs for you to use as inspiration
north nest
omg, it looks great, thanks
dim saddle
To be fair, most won't explain why X and not Y, because most of these evolved
I started with Z-Wave, because it's a better choice than WiFi (or Bluetooth) as it's a proper standard
Then realities of budgets hit and I added Zigbee
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It is fine, I need mostly example setups, more of them and I can compare chosen solution and choose my
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Many people will be rocking a Pi3 (or below), and happy because they have a tiny setup. Others of us found a Pi too limiting and moved to old PCs
north nest
I wanted all zwave, then I realized there is not much offerings for lights and I mentally switched to zigbee 3.0
Currently I am just planning and buying sample produts to try it on before I buy it massivelly
dim saddle
Your main drivers will be:
- Where in the world, since many things are regional or "limited" to certain electrical standards
- Budget
- Whether you're happy to live with being reliant on a cloud service (and your Internet connection) to save money, vs going local only and paying a little more
- Whether you want light switches to work as normal, or are happy to make everything rely on your HA install
The #zigbee-archived channel can guide you on good and bad brands for Zigbee, but mostly the advice is to avoid anything that mentions Tuya (whether Zigbee or not) and also avoid Osram and Sonoff
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- EU - Slovakia
- Not that important, most important is it to be reliable
- No cloud, all local and having public IP under my domain
- not sure
dim saddle
Some people love KNX - it's expensive but designed for pro installs so it's reliable
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Ikea, aqara, phillips hue, wiz, gledopto ?
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I can't speak for Wiz, as ISTR that's WiFi, but ... yes
https://github.com/DubhAd/Home-AssistantConfig/blob/live/hardware.md is all the stuff I'm using, or have used
Along with an indicator of whether I'd buy more
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bookmarked 🙂
dim saddle
It's UK centric, but most of the devices are going to be an option anywhere in the EU
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for cctv is it possible to have some reasonable setup through my rpi4 and in HA somehow? Will it handle?
dim saddle
Depends on what you define as reasonable, and what you want to do
If you're wanting to do motion detection on multiple cameras, a Pi will struggle
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yeah, it is wide spectrum I know
dim saddle
If you're doing motion + object detection, and buy a Coral stick, then ... https://docs.frigate.video/hardware/
north nest
exactly I was looking on that yesterday
2 cam at most and I can limit just to small section
anyway, I will see and upgrade if needed, it is ok
Thanks a lot for your time
2 more questions:
- do you use mqtt or zha, I assume mqtt?
- haos or docker? I would like to use docker (compose), not sure if I will reach some add-ons limit (missing a way yo do it in docker)
dim saddle
Zigbee2MQTT and Docker (also native Core)
north nest
great