This is the danger in building a smart home with proprietary, cloud based based platforms. The users have no control over the platform, and and it can be pulled from under your feet at any moment.
To avoid this, it’s better to choose an open, cloud free home automation platform such as Home Assistant. It’s open source and can’t be shut down or remotely disabled, and works with smart devices from almost any vendor, meaning you aren’t locked into a single ecosystem. There is even an active Lemmy community at [email protected] to get advice and inspiration.
A lot of the time you’re still utilising those proprietary products though. I’m not aware of a home thermostat that isn’t both easy to use (for the family) and non-proprietry. Sure home assistant can act as a coordinator, but in a lot of the cases it’s doing it via the cloud service.
Most modern boilers can be activated by a simple relay (it’s how the thermostat calls for heat).
A basic switch plumbed into hass can be set up as a thermostat entity, that isn’t too horrible to use.
And you can add a physical thermostat capable of sending values locally to hass if people want to be able to spin a dial on the wall.
To be honest, I do a lot of my automation invisibly: The target temperature is automated, the only physical button is a “30 minutes heat” one I installed.
It’d not an off-the shelf solution as such, but I have a relay with an ESP32 that fires up the heating and it’s directly controlled by HA. HA uses thermometers around the house - mostly ZigBee - to work out when to run it.
Given that Hive is ZigBee based and will continue to work locally, I wonder if it can be directly linked to HA?
This is the danger in building a smart home with proprietary, cloud based based platforms. The users have no control over the platform, and and it can be pulled from under your feet at any moment.
To avoid this, it’s better to choose an open, cloud free home automation platform such as Home Assistant. It’s open source and can’t be shut down or remotely disabled, and works with smart devices from almost any vendor, meaning you aren’t locked into a single ecosystem. There is even an active Lemmy community at [email protected] to get advice and inspiration.
Check the spelling on the community link mate. It come back as nothing to me.found it: [email protected]
Oops, I missed a t - it’s fixed now!
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[Edit] Ah it’s missing the t!
Thanks @[email protected]
I think the correct link is [email protected]
Thanks! I did a search and found a few, I was going to see which one was the most recommended.
I just subscribe to them all lol, there’s no limit to the number of sublemmies you can subscribe to.
Oops, I should probably stay of Lemmy until I’ve properly woken up in the morning.
I’ve fixed the link in my original post now.
Took me a lot more than it should to notice it.
A lot of the time you’re still utilising those proprietary products though. I’m not aware of a home thermostat that isn’t both easy to use (for the family) and non-proprietry. Sure home assistant can act as a coordinator, but in a lot of the cases it’s doing it via the cloud service.
Most modern boilers can be activated by a simple relay (it’s how the thermostat calls for heat).
A basic switch plumbed into hass can be set up as a thermostat entity, that isn’t too horrible to use.
And you can add a physical thermostat capable of sending values locally to hass if people want to be able to spin a dial on the wall.
To be honest, I do a lot of my automation invisibly: The target temperature is automated, the only physical button is a “30 minutes heat” one I installed.
I largely use Xiaomi and you can flash the temperature and humidity monitors.
It’d not an off-the shelf solution as such, but I have a relay with an ESP32 that fires up the heating and it’s directly controlled by HA. HA uses thermometers around the house - mostly ZigBee - to work out when to run it.
Given that Hive is ZigBee based and will continue to work locally, I wonder if it can be directly linked to HA?
There are some nice ZigBee trvs now
There are options for cloud free thermostats. The Drayton Wiser system can be controlled fully locally via a custom Home Assistant integration.
There are also some Zigbee and Z-wave thermostats that run locally.
HA is pog