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We don't see much activity on here these days so I am wondering exactly
what
people are using for home automation and if over the years it has become
more reliable?
I was chatting with a friend over in the US about this and we got to
talking
about each other's systems and how we found reliability and if we saw any
business in this by offering similar setups to home users. For me I often
get responses from the wife and daughter about something not responding to
button presses. That seems to be the main pain for the system I use and the
reason I am reluctant to offer anything to home users who are not some kind
of nerd or tech user. The systems are just now 100% reliable enough.
Commercial systems like Cbus are but costly to retrofit into an existing
home so more ideal for new builds.
As for own setup, I dumped my old Homeseer based PC about 2 years ago now
and switched to running Node-red on a Raspberry Pi3. The hardware has been
reliable and Node-red is super stable. I've only had one module cause me
grief and I have stopped using that until the developer fixes the issues.
The rest of my system consists of an Amazon Echo and Echo Dot along with 2
Triby units which I use for voice control as well as music. The lights are
controlled by Sonoff or Wemo modules and sockets are a combination of my
own
ESP8266 based controllers (fitted into old ZWave Home Control enclosures)
and Sonoff modules with custom code to support MQTT.
I also have a number of ESP8266 based custom modules that handle weather,
fridge temperatures and movement sensors to control lighting and other
tasks.
Switches are either 433Mhz RF with battery or Enocean wireless energy
harvesting switches in custom 3D printed housings that fit over the
existing
light switches to save them being switched off.
Everything is now controlled internally with an MQTT server on the Pi along
with Node-red. The only external cloud connection is for data logging on
things like Amazon AWS and Thingspeak. The previous system from Homeseer
introduced severe delays from the time you pressed a button to the device
responding. Now it's almost instant.
With this being more reliable than before I have less issues with the wife
and daughter using this when I travel.
Be great to hear what others have used and how you find reliability.
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<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US>We don’t see much activity on here these days so I
am wondering exactly what people are using for home automation and if over
the years it has become more
reliable?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I was chatting with a friend over
in the US about this and we got to talking about each other’s
systems and how we found reliability and if we saw any business in this by
offering similar setups to home users. For me I often get responses from
the wife and daughter about something not responding to button presses.
That seems to be the main pain for the system I use and the reason I am
reluctant to offer anything to home users who are not some kind of nerd or
tech user. The systems are just now 100% reliable enough. Commercial
systems like Cbus are but costl
y to retrofit into an existing home so more ideal for new
builds.<o:p></o:p><
/span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As for own setup, I dumped my old
Homeseer based PC about 2 years ago now and switched to running Node-red on
a Raspberry Pi3. The hardware has been reliable and Node-red is super
stable. I’ve only had one module cause me grief and I have
stopped using that until the developer fixes the
issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The rest of my system consists of
an Amazon Echo and Echo Dot along with 2 Triby units which I use for voice
control as well as music. The lights are controlled by Sonoff or Wemo
modules and sockets are a combination of my own ESP8266 based controllers
(fitted into old ZWave Home Control enclosures) and Sonoff modules with
custom code to support
MQTT.<br><br>I also have a number of ESP8266 based custom
modules that handle weather, fridge temperatures and movem
ent sensors to control lighting and other
tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Switches are either 433Mhz RF
with battery or Enocean wireless energy harvesting switches in custom 3D
printed housings that fit over the existing light switches to save them
being switched off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Everything is now controlled
internally with an MQTT server on the Pi along with Node-red. The only
external cloud connection is for data logging on things like Amazon AWS and
Thingspeak. The previous system from Homeseer introduced severe delays from
the time you pressed a button to the device responding. Now it’s
almost instant. <o:p></o:p></span></
p><p class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With this being more reliable
than before I have l
ess issues with the wife and daughter using this when I
travel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span
lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Be great to hear what others have
used and how you find
reliability.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div>
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