Smarter Home Automation without the Cloud
summary
Claim: keep the smarts at home and avoid cloud outages. Demonstrates a working stack with Home Assistant as the local controller, Node-RED for visual rules, Philips Hue (ZigBee hub) for fast local lighting, and ESP home on cheap ESP modules for bed and scale sensors. Reports surprising longevity (years-old bulbs), concrete deployments (multi-input rules for bed presence, sun-angle shade control, IR Wi‑Fi AC control), and prototypes for a cat feeder and couch pressure sensor.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Smarter home automation intro
- 2:48Cloud dependency problems
- 6:18Local control benefits
- 8:52Context in automation rules
- 12:43Building local system
- 17:12Home Assistant & Node-RED
- 18:17Reliable smart lights & sensors
- 21:09Home presence tracking
- 22:54Sunrise, weather, window angles
- 24:19Local window shades & AC control
- 28:11TVs without cloud
- 30:17DIY bed presence sensor
- 34:50Local cat feeder
- 36:57Future experiments
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