Battery hell?

Hello everyone,

I am looking for advices and opinions from you, HA users (and overall DIY smart home creators) who already built a home setup and are capable to share their sights :slight_smile:

My situation:

  • we are about to renovate a house (new wiring including)
  • we would like to “hide” / built-in the sensors as much as possible, do you have any experiences?
  • we have vision to control manually as few things as possible (at reasonable costs)
  1. Is it bad idea trying to go all wired?
    (since I was unable to find reasonable wired sensors, is it trying to “hard wire” power supply to the sensor’s battery pins bad idea?)
  2. How many of your devices are battery-based? Is is not a pain to change them?
  3. Would you recommend me to do some pre-cautions? And where do you buy sensors / switches etc.?

Thanks for stopping by :slight_smile:
Tomas J.