Hey everyone, I just wanted to make a quick post to say hi and inspire other lurkers to join in on the communities they love.
I come from Home Assistant and Home Automation on Reddit and figured my low post count on those communities wouldn’t help grow these communities unless I get my hands dirty and participate where I can.
Anyways I am happy to be here and I guess I’ll end off with asking what everyone else is using for their home automatons?
Welcome, doing the same myself. I wasn’t much of a contributor prior to the great migration and I’m trying to step up my contributions in order to help grow things.
Personally my entry into Home Assistant and Smarthome was to fix a very strange series of light switches in my house that all turned on or off different lights in 1 area and I used a series of smart switches, smart bulbs and lighting groups to make them all controlled as if they were on circuit, as the cost to do so electrically was prohibitive.
Now my automations are mostly to check on the state of the house and report problems. Such as if the door to the laundry room is left closed too long (as the litterbox is in there) and to check on the state of battery powered devices to see if batteries need replaced.
I try to keep the automations simple and unobtrusive.
Diehard Insteon fanboy here. HomeAssistant, Alexa, two Zwave switches, some Feit bulbs. A complete mess. I need to sit down and spend some time learning HA so I can unify it all. Just no spare time…
Hahaha I feel your pain. I started off with pretty much everything but easily supported gear. D-Link smart plugs, a mix of cameras from different vendors… And a home assistant install that only wanted to talk to half of them on a good day. Now I have a mix of 433MHz, Zigbee, and Z-Wave gear. The fun part is once you have the spare time to work at it you’ll probably not have spare time anymore lol
Hello there, fellow refugee!
I’m finishing my house, I put Sonoff light switches everywhere, a Tuya door lock, and I plan to automate garden watering, pool pump, LG multisplit ACs and the radiating floor. But I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ll take one step at a time and finally migrate to fully offline & selfhosted when I find time. Between the house, 2 jobs and 2 kids, I’ve been kinda busy.