Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Smart home deterioration (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by DjJelloShot@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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I’ve been in my home for about 4 years now. It’s safe to say that over those 4 years, everything has gone to pot and now my smart home doesn’t work.

Everything is running through my network of Amazon Alexa’s. I have mostly Philips Hue bulbs with a few GE switches and Samsung Sensors connected through Samsung SmartThings. August Smart Locks. A few other odds and ends.

I’m to the point now where nothing in my Apple Home Kit shows as online anymore. None of my timed or sensor based automations work now.

I’m sure this is normal…right? Has this been your experience that everything slowly stops working? Any tips to keep things alive and fresh? Is the only solution to delete everything and start over?

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[–] The_Marine_Biologist@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're spot on. Home assistant and cloudless devices is the only way to build a smarthome, anything else will eventually stop working as cloud services are shutdown.

[–] No_Picture_1212@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been building up my home assistant system and trying to stick with cloudless as much as I can because of this. Curious how often the small devices like sensors or other hardwired items need to get replaced for you? Or have they all lasted quite well? Wiring everything isnt feasible for me at my current residence but I’ve been trying to hardwired everything within reason to make everything more stable/hopefully last longer.

[–] The_Marine_Biologist@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't had to replace any yet and have 12 zigbee temp/humidity sensors which are all battery operated.

[–] No_Picture_1212@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That’s good to know! I got myself a bunch of zigbee battery sensors for temp and humidity too so that gives me some piece of mind. Have had a few go offline over the past few weeks but restarting always solved it. I’m still waiting for a proper zigbee dongle though and am currently using the Aqara hub with their sensors.