Seperis

For those into #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation and experimentation:

#BeaglePlay Project: https://beagleboard.org/p/andrei1998/beagleplay-zigbee-home-automation-using-homeassistant-324e63#toc-now--let-s-add-the-zigbee-integration-to-homeassistant-10

As we're on the subject: for anyone interested in jumping head first into home automation without risking hitting the ground, I heavily recommend the Home Assistant Bundles on Ameridroid: https://ameridroid.com/collections/main-page/products/odroid-n2-home-assistant-blue-bundle-limited-edition

BeaglePlay + Zigbee Home Automation Using HomeAssistant

Unleash the power of Zigbee and HomeAssistant using the low cost BeaglePlay By Andrei Aldea.

BeagleBoard Projects
Jun 8, 2023 at 7:05pmWeb
Show threadSeperisJun 8, 2023

As someone who ran HA in five or six different mediums before I got my HA Blue (and before HA Blue ran three separate hubs and multiple apps to coordinate my home automation, dear God I was tired), we do not need to cowboy this shit anymore and reinvent the basics in home automation.

Get this, let it take over all the basics of lights and door sensors and awakening your roomba to scare the dog when not home.

Show threadSeperisJun 8, 2023

It's about ten times easier to level up in how to do things when you're not exhausting yourself handling the basic stuff.

That said: I am kind of intrigued by HA on BeaglePlay. The only thing that gives me pause is it only has 16 GB eMMC.

I use 64 GB eMMC on mine and yes, some of it is backups and extra stuff that I could move...I don't have to for another 40ish GB. The most important thing about home automation is that you should have to spend the minimal amount of time thinking about it.

Show threadSeperisJun 8, 2023

Ideally, for running your home, you should do setup and then pretty much forget it until you need to add something; that's the goal here for your primary system (your dev and/or experimental systems, of course, have different rules).

To me, that should definitely include not checking my storage and worrying if I'm getting too close, worrying about the processing speed being slowed down, or thinking about it at all outside my normal housekeeping tasks.

Still though: BeaglePlay-HA looks cool.

Show threadSeperisJun 8, 2023

Note: this does not mean I unconditionally approve of putting all your eggs in one basket when it comes to home automation.

While HA controls my house, I still use the SmartThings Hub (two of them) to do my zigbee and z-wave, and Alexa is still my voice control. HA is my coordinator and integrator, yes, but everything I own still belongs to its' own hub as well as HA. If HA for some reason errors or goes down, I lose convenience, but not control.

Yes, I am indeed a control freak.