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I'm planning to build several WiFi connected devices for home automation: an AC remote control and air quality sensors. These devices would send data and be controlled through a local server. I'm considering two approaches: running custom software on a server PC (hardware to be determined) or integrating with Home Assistant's protocols and purchasing their hardware. Would using Home Assistant be excessive for this use case?

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Always run mine in a VM along with everything else, no need for special hardware.

Get yourself a PoE Zigbee and/or Z-wave receiver and you are good to go, can even live migrate HA if you are fancy

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I run mine in a VM but have USB passthrough for the Zwave and zigbee sticks. I didn't know there were POE coordinators. Do you have any you recommend? I use both zwave and zigbee

[–] speculate7383@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

I haven't tried it yet, but I see the SMLIGHT SLZB06 get recommended a lot for Zigbee