Which is great if you do that on the reg

Its not a question of compatability, matter has some inherent security flaws i’m not trucking with

I really only skimmed over it before deciding IDGAF at this point (i’ll probably revisit later, but in the middle of renovations and kittens right now) but https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/voice_remote_local_assistant/ should set you right

I’ve got a few of the zigbee temp/ humidity sensors, definitely better than the ikea variant. And the ikea sockets are stupidly sized and completely cockblock a standard gpo, hate that.

Still hunting a decent AQI, will probably have to get off my arse and build one

Zigbee.

You will need an antenna /hub though. I use a sky connect antennae, it’s all locked into my house.

If you have to go wifi, tplink /tapo literally have a “local only” mode when you firewall them out. The only issue is they warn you you can’t operate them unless you’re connected to your home wifi. Which is rather the point.

HAOS literally has a proxmox iso for home assistant. Slap that baby on.

There are homebrew voice units, but you’ll need a beefier system than normal to process in house. If you have apple devices you can expose certain elements from HA to apple home (and keep others obscured) to use your watch / voice etc.

There are a lot of home assistant communities and they are all very very friendly. It’s a massive learning curve and we’re all working together

There are people who tie gemini into their HA instance

These people are insane.

We have motorised shutters, my next plan is to tie in a daylight sensor so we can shut them at night and they open up a bit at dawn so the cats can sun themselves. At the moment we just have them open all the time, i mislike that.

Well that’s the thing. You design around your needs.

We have leak sensors on the brew fridge downstairs and behind the washing machine so we catch issues before they become floods. Door sensors to assuage anxiety and handle ADHD. Smart sockets so we can turn on things like rope lights in the subfloor with a button we can place anywhere we like rather than groping twelve feet into the spider-filled space to find the GPO. A button where every single function is set to turn the fan on so the hubs can roll over and slap it on his bedside table when he wakes up too hot instead of reaching behind the fan half asleep and fumbling for knobs. A tea button so we don’t forget the tea we have steeping. Tank overflow system that overrides the daily timer and pumps to a secondary reservoir system to maximise capture in high rainfall. Stuff like that

The speaker that plays “it’s raining men” when his lordship comes home and the garage door sensors that scream “what is WRONG with you people???” If opened at 3am is just me having fun with it though

Don’t do the lightbulbs (unless you rent). Do the power to the sockets.

Smart lightbulbs are a fucking rort

Last night.

Why?

So pissed ikea moved to matter. They were a great source of cheapie sensors.

Harder to get too sadly.

Tech here. Lots of smart home crap. All zigbee on Home Assistant