Good Evening.
I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for HA using Home Assistant. I am coming from SmartThings environment using WebCoRe. I have been using IFTTT for presence based on location and wifi. I have the following hardware:
- Two GE Zwave Dimmer Toggles
- Two GE Zwave Plus Dimmer Toggles
- One GE Zwave Plus Toggle
- One GE Zwave Dimmer plug
- One GE Zwave Plus Dimmer Plug
- One Inovelli Dual Outlet plug
- One Inovelli Outdoor Plug
- One Hank Zwave One Button Remote
- Two Hank Zwave Four Button Remote
- Five Schlage Zwave locks
- Two Ecobee4 Thermostats with Sensors
It looks like I could use a Raspberry Pi or an Odroid C2? I have a C1 and fried my last Pi. What dongles do you recommend and would you go with a C2?
I also am looking to have a wall panel somewhere and would love to have a dashboard that can bridge over to IP cameras. I also have Synology Surveillance Station, but if I can use a C2 with python for real motion detection of people, even if it is a second C2, I would be stoked.
Thanks for the help. I have gradually built into my current setup and am a bit overwhelmed with taking a big leap like this.
V/R,
Frank
I should say that I am switching so I have can control my zwave products when the internet goes out.
I also came over from SmartThings w/ webCoRE. I have several GE Z-Wave switches and dimmers, a Nest thermostat & camera and a couple Amcrest IP cameras. I use Life360 & Google Maps Location Sharing for presence detection, although I do also use IFTTT for presence for one of my sons.
First, I’m much happier with HA than I was with ST & webCoRE. With the latter it seemed I was always working around issues, and with all the cloud services in the way responsiveness and reliability was much worse. (Yes, there are still cloud services in my setup, but fewer and with better integrations.) HA isn’t perfect either, but way better. And since I’m a software developer I can fill in the gaps as necessary. 
Anyway, I have a Pi 3 Model B and an Aeotec ZW090 Z-Stick Gen5 and it’s worked pretty well for my needs. I used SQLite for the database for most of the time since that was easy, but just recently switched to MariaDB (also running on the Pi.) I would suggest using that or something else besides SQLite sooner rather than later. It was actually easier to switch than I had originally thought (although since I’m not using hassio it took a bit of googling to work through the details. I did take pretty good notes, though. )
Enjoy!
Awesome. I was going to order my Pi and Zwave today. Based on what you may have seen, it sounds like it is ok to do B+ 64bit Hass, but stay away from Odroid C2 Hass? I really wanted to use the Odroid, but don’t feel like fighting issues later on.
I have seen discussions that the B+ seems to work ok with HA, although I haven’t paid very close attention to the details. I’ve considered buying/upgrading to a B+, but just haven’t gotten around to it. I would do this probably mostly for the supposedly better WiFi, and I think the processor is better/faster, too. I don’t know anything about the Ordroid, so I can’t really comment, other than to say, if it has a supported Linux distribution you should be able to install HA using the Python Virtual Environment instructions and/or these instructions. (I used the latter, but in theory it’s supposed to apply to any Debian-based distro.)
EDIT: I should probably say many people seem to like using the Docker installation method, too.
Thank you for the info. I took the plug and purchased an Odroid Xu4, an Aeotec Gen5, and will be using an Ubuntu distro for the Odroid. I will give the docker a try first. I did see that there is a docker install for my Synology DiskStation, but I want to keep my backups and surveillance nvr separate from the home automation.