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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What hubs/environments support the logic I require? (alien.top)

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

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I have been having some difficulty figuring out what smart home environments and hubs I could use to fit my needs. A few years ago, I tried using google home to control my lights only to find out google home was mostly incapable of logic more complicated than turning devices on and off. Now, I want to try automations again, but I do not want to make the same mistakes again.

I want to automate my bedroom. I want two primary states: awake and asleep. During awake, I want all lights to turn on when a presence sensor detects someone. During asleep, I want lights to stay off regardless. I want a smart home button to be able to toggle between awake and asleep states. I would like if a wakeup routine could trigger at a certain time to slowly turn on the lights and when it is over, the state could change to awake. I also want a smart button to be able to set lights to a movie mode, which could also change my windows PC display settings. (I assume changing windows settings isn't directly possible with any hub, but if it is I'd like to know.)

The components I plan on having are two lightbulbs, an led strip, a smart plug, a mm presence sensor, and either a multi-input button or a smart home display to use for inputs.

Can google home now do this? Can Amazon or Apple's home environments do this? Would IFTTT work? Would I at the bare minimum need a proper smart home hub like home assistant? Please let me know.

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

Fibaro will do this and more either using block scenes or LUA programing