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Discussion about general home automation ideas and projects, home automation protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee, Matter, etc, and home automation software and hubs like HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Homey.

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/homeautomation

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So far I have a bunch of tradfri lights with a couple of hubs + Google wifi. I'm in Canada and a house I own and in a city that has good access to shipping. I'm an electrician, mostly commercial, but comfortable with computers and have done one or two projects with Arduino, so no issues with modification. I have a sense EM installed. I'm looking for an open source, localized, remote accesible, "reasonably secure" system/software. Thoughts? I rather not go back to Reddit.

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[–] solidgrue 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check out https://home-assistant.io

There's a bit of a learning curve to conquer, but there's also a helpful and engaged community, and some good discussions on the support forum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And [email protected] for a community around it

[–] thehatfox 2 points 2 years ago

Another recommendation for Home Assistant here. Home Assistant is commonly run on a Raspberry Pi or other low power SBC, but there are variety of install options.

As you have some Ikea Tradfri devices you will also want to get a Zigbee coordinator. Tradfri devices use Zigbee to communicate, and with Home Assistant and a Zigbee coordinator you can stop using the Ikea hub and control the devices directly with Home Assistant.

Good options for Zigbee coordinators include Home Assistant SkyConnect, SONOFF ZBDongle-P and Phoscon ConBee II.

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