I built myself some home automation within the past year. With everything that seemed useful to me.
I only wanted to spend as little money as necessary and use as much open source software as possible.
Of course, I shouldn’t calculate the time it took for the development because then I could just as easily buy ready made products. But now that I’ve finished most of it more or less, maybe you can benefit from it.
The full blogpost and all links you can find on https://ei23.com/diy-smarthome
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Content of this video:
00:00 My Motivation
01:06 DIY Video Doorbell
01:23 Front Door Display
01:27 DIY Smart Doorlock
01:50 DIY Smart Mailbox
01:58 Bring the Garage online (now with HomeAssistant)
02:06 Parking Sensor
02:11 DIY Alarm System
02:19 DIY Smart Washing Machine
02:25 DIY Smart Weather Station
02:39 Data Visualization (Grafana)
03:12 Data Storage Cloud at Home (NextcloudPi)
03:33 PiHole DNS server
03:46 Camera System
03:59 Remote Access via PiVPN
04:07 DIY Bluetooth Speaker
04:14 Smart Sockets (Tasmota)
04:39 DIY SmartMeter (SML)
04:44 Smart Thermostats
04:48 DIY Heating Control
04:52 DIY Smart Gas Meter
04:53 Data Visualization (Grafana)
05:15 DIY Smart Sprinklers
05:21 What You Can Do!
06:08 Siri fail
06:40 DIY Voice Control (Axel / Rhasspy)
06:55 What You Can Do!
07:46 Support Open Source Projects!