Home Automation - Smartkit

[ToxicBunny]

I have a 50 watt LED flood sitting in the cupboard.
Now you're making me think

There we go...

Could be used as a silent siren in a sense.... pulse the thing for 5 minutes or whatever.

 

[xrapidx]

I have a Yeelight RGB bulb outside above the garage that pulses blue and red when the alarm goes off

 

[Sinbad]

I would not turn all the lights on - turn them on where the motion was picked up.

You do not want to light up yourself if someone is in the house.

So currently all the lights is the lounge, and soon to be patio
Not bedroom area at all

 

[xrapidx]

Besides ambiance lighting, I don't plan on doing the internal lights.

My outside lights are on from sunset till sunrise. I still want to add garden lights. I want the whole place lit up at night.

 

[mbayshark]

What Pi's are you guys using to run Home Assistant?

 

[Sinbad]

What Pi's are you guys using to run Home Assistant?

I'm running mine in a docker container in a rancher VM on my FreeNAS server

 

[ToxicBunny]

I'm running mine in a docker container in a rancher VM on my FreeNAS server

And heres me who just pawned off all my PC/Server hardware at home in the last few months since I'd mostly stopped using it for anything... *mutter*....

 

[Sinbad]

Failing to plan = planning to fail

This is running on an old Microserver N40L

Now that it's working a bit harder, I might repurpose the N54L I was using as a media center...

 

[Sinbad]

Hmmm... thoughts... docker clustering... multi nodes, failover etc .....

 

[ToxicBunny]

Hmmm... thoughts... docker clustering... multi nodes, failover etc .....

Be smart..

Geostretch the cluster into the cloud so you can survive hardware failure at the expense of slight latency

Might require some decent implementation of something like Openshift........ DAMNIT now I'm getting ideas of filling my server cabinet at home again... FFS!

 

[xrapidx]

What Pi's are you guys using to run Home Assistant?

Pi3

 

[mbayshark]

Pi3

Thanks, I have a Pi3 B+ that I wanted to use for Opensprinkler. But think I'll rather use it for HA and get a smaller Pi for the sprinkler system.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Thanks, I have a Pi3 B+ that I wanted to use for Opensprinkler. But think I'll rather use it for HA and get a smaller Pi for the sprinkler system.

Surely you can run both on it?

 

[xrapidx]

Thanks, I have a Pi3 B+ that I wanted to use for Opensprinkler. But think I'll rather use it for HA and get a smaller Pi for the sprinkler system.

I got Opensprinkler on a Pi Zero W.

The Pi3 was running Opensprinkler before... which was overkill.

 

[mbayshark]

I got Opensprinkler on a Pi Zero W.

The Pi3 was running Opensprinkler before... which was overkill.

Jip thought so too. Will do that.

 

[xrapidx]

Surely you can run both on it?

You probably can, but I'd imagine the pi3 will eventually struggle with home automation as you load more stuff.

 

[mbayshark]

Surely you can run both on it?

Two different locations in the house where hardware for the two systems will be installed. So not really an option for me.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Two different locations in the house where hardware for the two systems will be installed. So not really an option for me.

Fair enough.... I have everything on wired running through to a central place in my house

 

[ipodmusicman]

I am planning to get a pi3B to run Home Assistant. Will a 32GB SD card be enough? I might run the Ubiquity controller on there too and maybe one or two other stuff.

 

[xrapidx]

I have mine on a 16gb card. You'll only need to worry about space if you want to keep quite a bit of history.