Smart Home 2.0 w/ Home Assistant

Hi all! After many years of fooling with Google Home & cheap WiFI-based IoT devices, I’ve finally decided to go down the Home Assistant rabbit hole. I’ve gotten so worn out of the same old process for my current smart-home setup: buy new devices, download their special proprietary app, link it up to Google home, and so on…. only to have the devices continuously disconnect, get discontinued and rendered worthless, regularly unpair, or any of the dozen other issues I’ve continuously had - leading to me entirely dropping smart home about a year ago.

I have so many ideas for fun projects here:

  1. Get home assistant deployed
  2. Integrate some new ZigBee and Z-Wave devices
  3. NVR
  4. Sensors (humidity/temperature/power/mailbox)
  5. Data export & dashboarding
  6. Alarm system
  7. Developing my own integrations

Just to name a couple! I’m hoping to write about each of these here, building out the next-gen version of my smart home. Stay tuned for more posts on all of the above!