| If you want to set up a FOSS system, HomeAssistant is very good. I never had success with Z-Wave and/or Zigbee interfaces on an HA host, but interfacing with a hub is easy enough. I found myself leaning towards devices which offer (Apple) HomeKit compatibility, as this is a well-known standard that’s supported by HomeAssistant and requires totally local communications. A lot of vendor devices currently don’t play well on other hubs, and while Matter and Thread are supposed to address that, I’m not holding my breath. I have Phillips (Signify) Hue (lights, motion sensors, switches), Ikea Tradfrei (lights), Ikea Dirigea (blinds, soon to add contact sensors), Tado (heating), Meross (smart power strips, leak sensors, smoke alarms), Eufy (cameras), Sonos (speakers), and Neatamo (weather station). I will probably add a Homebridge instance to add my Dyson fans and LG appliances. In the end, maintaining an HA instance got to be a bit much, so I migrated to Apple Home on an AppleTV, which has been okay so far. It has a higher partner acceptance factor, and the streamer is way easier than maintaining a separate Kodi instance and playing commercial service whack-a-mole. You are trading freedom for convenience, of course, and HA was totally capable of doing everything I wanted. Kind regards, Travis Sent from my iPad On 7 Feb 2024, at 10:52, John Hearns via GLLUG <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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