That looks really interesting, never heard of Tasmota. I’ll look into it thank you so much!

So using for example a Shelly relay would be more ideal? I was thinking of using smart lighting because you can for example have more warm light in the evening and more white light in the morning for example.

Hi, thanks for your comment :) I just looked at the Ikea bulbs and they seem to be cheaper than Philips Hue. I’ll look into it more later today. As for the blinds, that Shelly Plus 2PM looks interesting I have to look into it how it exactly works (I’m not an electrician, it’s all new for me ;) ) I’m not into the Apple ecosystem (for privacy reasons) You know any way to connect my Navidrome server to HA so I can stream to those Ikea Sonos speakers?

I already have a router flashed with OpenWRT and I really like it. I just bought Unifi Enterprise 24 PoE switch and a barebone router of AliExpress (4x 2.5G ports, intel celeron cpu) so I can experiment with OPNSense. For APs I already have some U6 LR, didn’t knew you can flash those with OpenWRT, will look into that :)

Yeah if I choose for smart lighting I’ll just install in-wall smart switches. You have any experience of the longevity of smart bubs?

Hey, thanks for your detailed comment :) That Z-Wave thermostat looks really clean. I’ll try to order those. I agree with you, you should always have a simple physical button to control something instead of only relying on an app on your smartphone.

I didn’t knew about the Z-Wave store, looks that they have good prices. I see you can only buy as B2B? Not that this is an issue for me.

MySensors looks really fun, I might order some parts to tinker with :)

Hi, you mean I can directly wire a open/close sensor? That is interesting. You have any recommendations for those and the smart blinds?

More stable connection and less latency I guess

That would be a solution, only problem is that I don’t have my playlists. But that’s not that big if a deal.

I use PairDrop allot for sending peer to peer files/text to other PC’s on other networks. FOSS and can be self hosted ;)