What Reddit Says About Home Automation Apps

Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io.

For wifi devices, Home Assistant is very easy. It's already on your network and can discover most devices automatically. I have about 45 wifi TPLink devices between Kasa and Tapo and all of them have shown up automatically so all I had to do ...

I've been on Homeseer for years. It's solid, been around for >20 years, reliable and scalable. I don't use dashboards* but it has a dedicated wall tablet designer, a couple of plugins that can do displays via Web, their mobile app, and option to use 3rd party apps like HSBuddy to m...

Use google home app as main UI for simplicity sake · Reolink Poe security camera system with reolink NVR ... And I have some follow up questions regarding the above items and am seeking recommendations on a few other items.

Disclosure - I use Home Assistant (HA) as my home automation system, and I recommend YoLink devices for outdoor and remote locations due to their very long range and reliable signals.

Once the transition is complete, I think Smartthings is going to be tough to beat for the "average" consumer looking to get into home automation. They are in the sweet spot of "high compatibility," very good (but not the best) automation engine, polished app, and user friendlines...

I currently have a mix of smart devices that I’ve mostly been controlling through the Tuya app, however some things (like my Eufy doorbell and an old Eve smart plug) live in HomeKit or their brand’s own apps. I’m also planning to add a Tapo H110 to control my aircon and TV, because I’m renting and t...

Problem you're going to have with Homey is that their ecosystem is so closed off that tinkerers like me that make the HA platform what it is, and as good as it is, are pretty walled off. If their little app sdk does what you want, awesome, you can build your integration. But if you need a more ...

Second what everyone else is saying. Home Assistant is the way to go. Initial setup is not bad and it’s powerful when it comes to automation.

HomeKit all the way, it's the simplest solution for a family that is in the Apple ecosystem. Yes, it's limited, but works with important products like Caseta, Hue, Meross, etc. Supports scenes and basic automations. Some good HomeKit focused channels on YouTube.

Indigo Domotics. Works with a lot of Z-Wave things. Mac based and they went to a subscription model to keep the base software up to date, but I found it easy to use and quite stable. I left for HA since I was moving away from Apple for a lot of things, and my home automation system was one of them.

HomeBridge is mostly a supplement to your hub, but doesn’t replace it. Using Node Red might help, but unless devices are controlled independently from the hub this may not help. Home Assistant can replace run automations independently. Getting HA running and working like HomeBridge is fairly painles...