Anyone interested in commercially working with me on Home Assistant?

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Hi readers,

I am a system integrator in off-grid solar and ESS backup systems, and I live in Mexico. I’m originally from the Netherlands. I have a Raspberry Pi at home running Home Assistant. I would like to add a standard home automation solution to the local market here in Queretaro Mexico, but I need someone who can support me in making a nice solution that I can offer to the market.

I have a background in electronic engineering, so I do understand part of the technology, but I want to work with someone else who is way more skilled than I am in Home Assistant configuration and GUI design. I want to work on a commercial basis with someone who has experience with this platform.

If you like this, let me know and we can talk further offline.

Regards,
Pied De Pad.

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Hi,

Good luck and have fun into it, we are doing it here in Europe since 5 years now with great success to use HA for commercial projects, will never come back into proprietary systems.

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Hi vincen,
If I understand you well you agree with me that Home assistant is a good acternative of even beter one compaired with the Brand specific systems. Is that you wat you say?

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Let us take the example of Quicken. The first version I got was free (I think). It did an adequate job keeping track of my family’s income and expenses. But, as time went on, it cost a small amount for the latest version, then the amount became a little more. Old versions were incapacitated and then it became a subscription and if you didn’t pay the subscription it stopped working. This business model is now called enshittification.

I have also been seriously burned by a cloud based systems and seen other systems purchased by bigger companies become useless.

I’d say yes, HA is better than Brand specific systems. It gives you a lot of flexibility in selecting the hardware you’re going to buy, to the point you can easily build your own.

Your strategy of hooking up with an HA expert is a good one (I am far from being an expert) because the learning curve is steep and fraught with pitfalls. Learning to make a very usable GUI is another learning curve in and of itself.

You’re on the right path.

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Are you considering off the shelf designs like the Nabu-Casa green for each customers server? The profits are ploughed back into the HomeAssistant ecosystem.

What of the peripherals - will you be the sole supplier of devices that need IPV6 for Matter/Thread integration, and can configure a range of routers customers have to support it?

Will you provide support for those that buy cheap chinese junk with non-existent documentation, relying on a Tuya cloud, for which at least three integrations are commonly currently used in HomeAssistant?

Are you paying by the hour, or by project?

On site, or remote access for customer support and upgrades? VPNs? Automatic updates? Backups of each configuration to your cloud servers,

Will you be contributing your privately funded developments and tweaks back to Open Source, paying it forward?

Will you have a 24/7 help desk team for customers to call? Technically proficient, fluent Mexican speaking, without a foreign accent? Not an AI bot trained on outdated information.

Look at the HomeAssistant monthly updates aftermath, each and every month, commonly reported here on these forums in bulk. ZigBee devices gone missing, frozen greens stuck updating, broken dashboards, breaking changes that bork third party apps. Can you cope with that, given the support provided here is voluntary by most participants (like me), of varying experience and skill levels You won’t be steering your customers here as well as Discord when they have problems?

I wish you the best of success. With the right team behind you, and the right products, you can do it.

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Exactly, it’s a fantastic replacement of the commercial/closed solutions that exist on market, it still doesn’t prevent you from being very careful about products and services you use with it to keep it as a stable and reliable solution :wink:
HA systems we have installed at customers are working non stop 24/24 year round without any crashes, hangs. Only time it’s rebooted it’s when we are doing annual maintenance (doing all updates of HA and dependencies).
We have a lot of interfaces and controls done with ESP based devices and it works great too, we have some ESPHome based devices that have some uptime above 6 months without any problems.

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That is nice said, I apreciate what you say. Yes Im looking to work together, I want to sell here in mexico and make a deal who helps me with puting a sollution together for a client.

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buenas suerte!