I want to set up some simple programmable buttons to run scenarios at my house and my (elderly) mother's.
Factors:
Wi-Fi enabled houses
I have a background in IT - but only done vaguely intelligent plug and play for the last 10 years.
No hubs existing.
Trying to stay cost effective.
Recommendations?
I have existing home automation scenarios, so pretty easy.
Mum's will be all new, but the most important one will be one that sends an alert of some sort to me on activation.
@dzwiedziu I'm trying to stay away from zigbee, based on the belief that it will eventually be phased out / replaced by matter.
Is this an erroneous thought?
@Andrea
Honestly I didn't know about that.
Personally I only had trouble getting the power measuring plug from IKEA in France.
Still the devices I have work, and the admission cost difference between ZB and WiFi was ~20€ for the USB controller vs. a separate isolated WiFi setup.
Still with Home Assistant being recommended here already you can mix systems to your heart's content.
Andrea
Dźwiedziu