This is a bit of a re-do from my original project that was kicked off during COVID. key goals that have been on the current focus have been to keep it simple and finish what I start.
Here is the original post of chaos: My Home (Google home + Unifi + Rainbird + Tuya)
This is moderately successful as this was a clean-up of a live project that has been chopped and changed from VirtualPC, Raspberry Pi 3, 4, ESXi and now finally Proxmox.
Use case:
Typical family with 2 kids and a wife with a low tolerance for change or things not working. Expensive power bills and a busy life. The general goals of this project are;
- Automate as much as that’s practical
- Allow for dumb/manual overrides wherever possible
- Try not to overcomplicate things, with simple logic
- Leave useful notes for future changes and to be able to diagnose issues
Key dashboards for mobile usage
- Standard stuff: lights, air conditioners, fans (go to direct content)
- Security: CCTV super basic setup
- Utilities: Robo vacuum, Network power monitoring, reticulation
- Nerd Labs: 3D Printer, Jellyfin, Unifi system monitoring and HA system monitoring
- Media: Android TV, Google Home Speakers
- Network: topology map, SSID, floorplan, offline diagnostics
- Car: Tesla
Dashboards for 27" 1K landscape display in kitchen
Dashboards for 40" 4K TV/horizontal display in Office
Automation:
- 76 automations down from an original ~90. I got brutal removing over-engineered conditions, duplications
- 4 scenes as a regrettable initial part of the implementation paired with automations. was originally 12. aiming to completely remove
- 0 Scripts Have used automations in parallel or with delays
- 2 Blueprint What to add existing and stable blueprints from the community. Feel like what i need isn’t unique and most likely some other nerd has already done the hard work to make an automation I can leverage.
Power Management:
I found power management to be a massive ballache. Given the shifting landscape, I’ve kept this as a separate post How to add multi-tarrif into HA using CT clamp #shelly #pv #tarrif
- Central management from CT Clamps on the 3-Phase meter board using Shelly EM3. This is expressed as net consumption/generation.
- Solar PV generation is effectively ignored. Due to the redundancy of relying on any generation.
- Device monitoring is done with an array of TUYA energy monitoring smart switches using the PowerCalc app to enrich raw data into meaningful per-device energy monitoring.
- Car/EV monitoring is done using the HACS Tesla app, relying on source data from the Telstra API.