Smart Home: For those who live in it / that only connect with you

Smart homes are where the home knows what’s haeppening and adjusts itself to suit those conditions. We visualize it as blinds automatically getting rolled up to wkae us up; lights turn on as we walk in a room; temperature changes as the day pass by.

The way to achieve this vision is to buy into ecosystems like Google Home, Apple Home, Amazon Echo - all of which are essentially a bunch of devices connected to a controller in your home.

Struggle b/w control and features

Risks of the ecosystem

• bricked devices
• locked out of accounts

Alternative

• Open Home Foundation - HomeAssistant
• Tools
  • Raspberry Pi
  • protocol
  • sensors

Cost comparison

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