My first “project” is to automate my roller shutter. Later, I will add more automation (like T° monitoring, connection to my somfy system, etc).
I plan to buy a few zigbee 3.0 modules on aliexpress to control rollershutters
I also plan to buy a PC DELL 3020 - i5 -4590T / 2,00 à 3,00 Ghz / 8 Gb RAM / 240 Gb SSD and install linux to run HA in a container.
My questions:
- There is no wifi on the PC, it will be connected using ethernet to my home router (that has all the wifi devices connected to it). Could this be a problem later : is there any “popular” device that requires wifi on the computer? (since they can actually been reached using my router so I do not think this would be a pb, but I prefer to ask).
- Which USB 2 zigbee module should I get? I read a few posts, but they were quite old (2019). There are devices with cc2531 like this with reprogrammable firmware OR this one here with CC2538+CC2592. Although I’m not affraid of flashing things, I would prefer something plug&play to start with so I can focus on HA automation…
Honestly, I did not get the benefits/difference on the different hardware version and I did not understood better the difference between the available API (zigbee2mqtt, etc). Any link to a good&up to date tutorial is welcome.
- I understand that choosing hardware may lead to an endless discussion, but do you see any major issues in this plan?
Thanks