I'm planning to buy a house and making it "smart". Does anyone know any resource that can guide me?<p>Something like garage door that opens with a tap on my phone, music that follows me room to room, door camera that can be viewed from TV ("alt-tab" while watching Netflix), lights controlled by voice, smart mirrors.<p>Can be a blog, a forum, or a book, but it should be holistic—I don't want it to end up like a Goldberg machine.
Even better: buy an old office desktop from about 10 years ago, upgrade the ram and storage (if you feel like it) and install Proxmox. Now you can run as many servers as you want, faster, probably cheaper, and with much less hardware.
I was one of those guys that hosted nearly everything on a bunch of Pis. While it was fun initially, I eventually got frustrated. Yeah, self-hosting stuff is fun'n games. But sadly things do break, SD cards fail, hardware dies and backups do not work.<p>Personally, I am only hosting a few important services locally. These services are one hundred percent automated and can be deployed in minutes. For everything else I pay someone else to host it or I got rid of it entirely.<p>That does not mean that it isn't a great hobby. I just found myself investing may too much time for a small benefit. Also, I think that I did not learn anything new by preparing the sixth Pi or running some Playbook/Dockerfile/Installer that someone else has written
It's probably been mentioned before, but if you want something that is:<p>* A fair bit more grunty than a Pi<p>* Fairly power efficient<p>* x86<p>* More of a standard computer<p>You should consider picking up what Servethehome has coined the TinyMiniMicro nodes. They're the kind of computers you typically find strapped to the back of a monitor in a doctors office and usually are fairly power efficient machines. I, for example, have a Lenovo m710q - which has an Intel 6500t (a quad core CPU), 16gb of ram, and a 512GB SSD, which I paid around 200USD for, that is significantly easier to manage than a Pi (since it's 'just' a computer) and sucks back around 10w of power at idle (which is roughly triple a Single Pi 4) - but still in the realm of negligible. It actually replaced a Pi 4 for my self hosted home stuff, and it was a fantastic choice that I do not regret.<p>Lots of this type of computer are available in all sorts of configurations, and the more 'standard' nature of the machine opens up a lot of possibilities the Pi either makes more difficult, or impossible. For example, my node hosts a bunch of services for me, but it also acts as a Steam In Home Streaming machine that I have connected to my living room television, which allows me to stream games from my desktop to the TV fairly effortlessly.
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The one thing I don't really get is why, pi's everywhere? Most of the times an esp32 will be more than enough for a few sensors. No need to be running a full OS and the added benefit they are actually available right now to buy.
Does anyone have any experience with <a href="https://www.indigodomo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.indigodomo.com/</a> ?<p>I've always had it bookmarked, but never had the time to think about it or to do anything more than a random Pi for homebridge for a few Z-wave switches I have.
Tbh the only thing Im waiting for to make a move on smart-home thingy is.. a good voice assistant.<p>Alexa, Siri etc just dont cut it and are not private assistants.<p>I want Jarvis for personal use.