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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Matter enabled outdoor smart plugs? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by galactoise@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Tried to plug in our holiday lights this afternoon only to find that our old switch, an iHome ISP100, apparently isn't usable anymore because SDI completely abandoned Android for the iHome Control App, which has somehow broken device pairing. So that thing has become e-waste and now I'm looking for a new outdoor plug that I can set up with some sort of mechanism for timing (open to anything) and voice control (Alexa).

At this point I think I'd prefer simplicity, I'm happy to forego bells and whistles, and to pay more, to just have something that solves a problem and can continue working after the company who created it has given up on it. I assume Matter is the answer there, but if there's some other company that has a different way of solving this (maybe by releasing their source or something) I'm all ears.

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[–] ta70000@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Kasa. Cheap and great.

[–] RedditNotFreeSpeech@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Open it up and see what chip it's using. It may not be ewaste just yet.

[–] kigmatzomat@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

plenty of zwave outdoor plugs. Jasco/GE, Zooz, Minoton, probably others.

[–] HoustonBOFH@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Matter, Zigbee and Zwave are all local control. And on Home Assistant, you can have a dongle for all three. That will open your options quite a bit.