IoT.DB - Does it exist and if not, would it be useful enough?

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Hi! I’m not sure which category would fit this…

What do you think about something like ProtonDB (https://www.protondb.com/) but for IoT devices? Some place where people can add IoT devices and rate and tag them (Is it secure? Does it require cloud? Local control? HASS integration? Overall rating? Which countries is it available at?), and others would then be able to go there and search for what they want\need.

Does something like this exist? If not then how useful would it be if it did?

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you mean like this:

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Oh cool! Sure, here are some suggestions:

  • Allow users to add devices themselves, so it’s a joint “open source” effort. This way database will expand a lot faster. You can still keep ‘curated’ status of it by, say, tagging newly added devices as ‘drafts’ or ‘unchecked’ or something like that, until you can come in and confirm it or something. At least if it’s not how it works atm, did not yet have a chance to test it out
  • Check https://www.protondb.com/ and see how it works and what it does and what’s so good about it, maybe it’s worth taking something from there
  • I would add a separate category for “Switches”, for actual physical light switches with ZWave\ZigBee\Wifi operation. Ones that are hard wired, placed into a wall.
  • Availability and sorting by countries would be useful. Especially useful for wall switches - different countries have different standards, shapes of mount boxes, etc
  • Some sort of ratings for each device - security, type of integration, maybe some form of rating

And clearly it needs some more advertising :smiley:

Tried to add a device, and got “cross origin request” error,

Unhandled promise rejection Error: "Network Error"


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[vendor.8d4771f8fd66b0d044e5.js:2:108376](https://www.hadevices.com/_nuxt/vendor.8d4771f8fd66b0d044e5.js)

Here’s what I wanted to add:

Easybulb Plus RGBW Strip LED Light
LED Lightstrip controller
http://shop.easybulb.com/controller-only-for-easybulb-plus-rgbw-strip-led-light/
It was previously called and can still be found under “MiLight FUT038” name, requires a hub: http://shop.easybulb.com/easybulb-wifi-box-controller/ . LAN controlled, supported by Hass through LimitlessLED component. It’s possible to make DIY hub from a NodeMCU\ESP

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best to add these to the other post. I don’t manage that site in any way.

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Oh sorry, I did not notice it was a link-quote :smiley: That’s a little embarrasing