Local Network Hardware

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Hi all,

This is my first post here, I hope I’m following the correct process in posting here.

I’m looking for a place to find the hardware that runs with home assistant locally only, with no other cloud services required.

I’m aware, home assistant is designed to work with almost anything and I’ve got most of my house working.
What I’m looking for is, when I look at purchasing new hardware for my house or office. It would be nice if I had a list of product lines that can easily connect via the local network.

Currently, it feels like I’d have to recreate the wheel with a lot of the things i’m looking for through ESPHome projects.

The main items are:
Light switches
Outlets
Sensors - I found zigbee sensors
Camera’s - I have purchased Zosi.
Door locks

  • I need to add - I have been working on home automations for years using all the different apps. I had no idea Home assistant or the concept was possible with all the different services and getting them to work. But I can’t believe how amazing the product is. So thanks to the Home assistant team / community.

Thanks,
Wesley

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Step 1 Home automation gear depends on both power and usually wireless radio frequencies. Those are both geography dependent. So what country are you in so you can instantly filter out anything that won’t work

Also welcome.

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You’ve probably already come across Blackadder’s lists of devices:

A useful place to look for ideas. Not sure how often it’s updated, though.

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Hi Nathan,

Thanks for reply. I’m in the US.

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I haven’t, but I will check it out.

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In that case If you stick to ZWave, Zigbee, Matter and Esp32 devices you will be reasonably assured you can run without needing anything or anyone except for your HA install.

There are of course nuances. Like for Zigbee. That list above is awesome. You will find similar resources for the various protocols and technologies you adopt.

There’s a lot of tribal knowledge out there for things like vendor x smart plugs drop off the network of used with vendor Ys repeaters. Unfortunately it’s simply too much for any one person to know or list out. Best advice right now is stick to widely supported device agnostic protocols or widely supported solutions. ‘WiFi’ on its own is not a smart device protocol Matter over wifi (defines How the device talks) is.

When you decide on a device do your best to find the current model number of that device and do a search here and the internet with it - you’ll find a lot of knowledge in these pages, get good with search-fu. I very rarely find a device that someone else doesn’t already have an opinion on.

Use model number for search when possible because model number matters. One revision may work while the next won’t.

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Yes, I was hoping for some magic list of products/vendors. But I get the complexity of such a list and the on going work.

Thank you for the detailed reply.

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