The most useful sensors?

  • Contact Sensors connected to GPIO pins
  • More contact sensors
  • Wireless contact sensors
  • Motion sensors to take different actions (light on/off, take picture and email it) when something is moving in the room. If alarm on, send a notification and email a picture so I can verify alarm.
  • Touch sensors providing different types of touch detection (long, short, double tap, etc)
  • Smart touch sensor to control single and three level lamps
  • Ping sensors to know when people’s phones are home and to verify primary internet is up (switch to cellular when it’s down)
  • Wall mounted pixel touch sensors to provide control of HA, cellular backup and house phone services.
  • And modbus sensor to monitor and control house climate. Associated with this I use the aqara climate sensors.
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