I’m trying to set up a workshop and make it smart. The light will be on sensors and the power will cut off when I turn the lights off kinda thing… But I don’t have an Internet signal, does home assistant need an Internet connection or just a WiFi signal to connect to the devices?
My mistake, I should have been clearer it’s only a mobile signal I have.
Basically in my workshop I have 240v power and a weak mobile signal, if I stand in the carpark I can get an Internet signal on my phone but not in the building. Its in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees and fields so getting a phone line or Internet cable isn’t an option .
Wonder if there is a way to have my phone send a signal over closed WiFi to HA if it gets a call that could be picked up and used in an automation…
I’ll check that youtube channel out later today thanks.
Tinkerer I had thought of that option but I maybe misunderstood how it all works, as far as I understood webhook triggers required an Internet connection, guess I’ll have to look through that again and try to work it out