An ongoing list of all the hardware I’ve gradually acquired. Links are to Amazon, but if you are patient most things can be imported from China for much cheaper.
Want to get started in home automation for cheap? Check out my $200 DIY Smart Home Shopping List to get started with a great foundation of hardware for use with Home Assistant. Control devices over WiFi, Bluetooth, infrared, Z-Wave, Zigbee, RF, and build some basic sensors – all for less than most kits from one proprietary vendor!
CONTROLLER
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Linear Z-Wave & Zigbee Combo Stick
- Broadlink Mini Infrared Bridge
- DIY MiLight Bridge
- Parts List:
LIGHTS
- MiLight RGBW Bulbs
- MiLight Remote
- Ikea Tradfri bulbs, hub, dimmers
SWITCHES
- GE Z-Wave 12727 Wall Switch
- GE Z-Wave 12729 Wall Dimmer
- Z-Wave In Wall Dual Switch Relay
- Innovelli Z-Wave Dual Plug & Range Extender
- TP-Link HS100 WiFi Switch
- Sonoff WiFi Switches
- HOWTO: Coming Soon
- Sonoff-HomeAssistant firmware
SENSORS
- MiFlora/Xiaomi Plant Sensors
- Z-Wave Motion Sensor
- Z-Wave Door/Window Sensor
- Aeotec Multisensor Z-Wave
- DIY Sensors
MEDIA PLAYERS
- Odroid XU4 – Plex Server & Media Downloader
- Roku – Plex Clients
- Onkyo TX Stereo Receiver
- Volumio
SMART DEVICES
- GoControl Z-Wave Thermostat
- Amazon Echo and Echo Dot
- Wemo Mr. Coffee
- WiThings Body Scale
- Fitbit
- Tile Tracker
- Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum
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That house diagram… what software is that?
Home Assistant with the Floorplan addon:
https://github.com/pkozul/ha-floorplan
I drew the diagram myself, mostly using icons from https://thenounproject.com/
Hi again Brad, are you solely using MiLight bulbs and the Hub to bridge your lights into HASS?
As for the Ikea gear, how are you getting that into HASS? Using the MiLight hub as well?
Almost solely the milight bulbs with the DIY hub: https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub
I have 2 Ikea bulbs and a few dimmer pucks, I just run them through the Ikea hub. I think since I set this up people have figured out how to connect the Ikea stuff through a standard Zigbee stick.
Ah – ok. So essentially you rooted that hub and leveraging it that way.
So I’d imagine you’re using mqtt to trigger them and operate them?
The esp8266 milight hub uses MQTT JSON, yes.
Hi!
I’m working with a lot of the same things as you, milight, bh1750, Raspi and xiaomi.
One of the things I’m stuck on right now is getting the bh1750 to work on my raspi.
I’ve enabled I2C, cabled it to raspi, created a bh1750.py file – and this is where i’m stuck. When i try to run the file, I get errors. could you perhaps share your file, so I can see if there’s a difference between them..
Hi Hasse! I have my sensors hooked up to esp8266 devices using the ESP Easy firmware, not the Pi. I am not sure about your issue but the cheap chips like Wemos D1 Mini make adding sensors everywhere pretty easy and cheap.
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/ESPEasy