I’ve been looking at the posts to find someone who can configure Home Assistant to work with Schlage Locks, ecobee thermostats, Akuvox Inrercom and TP-Link Omada to create an automation for short term rentals?
I know that the spirit of HA is for self doers but I am looking to work with someone to create a timely solution.
Any help or people who are interested please let me know. I tried UpWork and FreeLancer and can’t find anyone.
A section with people looking for projects would be great.
Finally - Through multiple similar discussions in these forums a common theme always emerges: Don’t do it! The issues with support and liability for any such commercial use are significant. HA, at least at this point in its lifecycle, is a hobbyist / tinker system, and is not commercial grade. Who will get the call at 2 am when (not if!) your renter says they are locked out of their unit? Who will get sued if the door unlocks unexpectedly and something bad happens? Really - if you want to do this, hire a professional automation company that has the backing and support capability required. This shouldn’t be a DIY project.
@Yan_Schechter; A friendly tip if you want proper help: Be much clearer about the overall goals and purpose of your setup. Also, specify whether the job includes installing and configuring locks, sensors, etc as well as the actual Home Assistant environment. And don’t forget to mention if it’s a fixed-price project or an hourly consulting gig. Good luck!
Thanks for the reply. I am in the US, specifically the property is in Boston. This is for a small property (10) units and I manage it and take the 2am calls so there is no issue there. My goals is to find an expert who has experience with this so that they can help me set this up, especially since the platform supports most of the components I installed: Schlage locks, ecobee thermostats. I saw something about support for TP link Omada, so that would be big help if I can create passwords for the tenant stay.
Where there is no integration is Akuvox intercoms. We did get the API for cloud from Akuvox and bringing that integration in would be crucial in creating the tenant experience.
I am aware that this is a tinkering platform and that nothing is 100% guaranteed but the cost of going to professional grade platforms is simply massive and many of them are becoming extinct anyway.
Hope someone has an interest to take this on. I’m happy to pay for this as an experienced person will be able to get this done and stay onboard to tinker with more integration. Looking forward to working with this person.
Lawrence, happy to pay a reasonable rate for this project. I assume that the right person will have an idea what this should cost. What we need is to leverage the tools that are available to create a good working system.
Looking forward to hearing from anyone interested.
You kind of skipped over the most important questions in my first post.
You also need to explain whether the solution is for the tenants, the back office, or both.
Other key questions include whether the technical environment will run on-prem, on a VPS, or in a commercial cloud—and how it’s going to be managed and maintained.
The whole setup also needs proper documentation and routines for operation and support.
If you’re not clear on all these points, there’s a big risk of misunderstandings, which could leave you with an expensive setup that doesn’t even meet your needs.
Bottom line:
There’s no such thing as a quick, cheap, and good solution when you’re relying on external resources.
That’s exactly why commercial turn-key solutions are priced the way they are…
when a new reservation is create - the PMS (Property Managemebt System) will make a call for HA to execute the New-Reservation script which creates an intercom code, door code, WiFi password.
If a reservation is modified the PMS will make a call to make modifications
When tenant checks in to property the thermostat is set to tenants comfort temp settings
When tenant checks out all credentials are removed.
This will run locally on a box (Dedicated Yellow or NUC)
Sorry but strongly disagree !! I’m in the commercial business of home-automation system installation since 30 years, and now using HA since 4 years for customers and it works fantastic ! In no way, I’ll return at the so limited, old fashion and closed products such as Crestron, AMX or similar
I have to echo @vincen here. I’ve been using it for commercial purposes (STR, exactly what @Yan_Schechter is looking for) for over 5 years and it works very, very well for that. The main difference between HA and some closed product is price and the type of support you get.
Here price doesn’t really matter but the open-source side, flexibility, insane quantity of “drivers”, and robustness are fantastic (not even speaking fact that you don’t need a closed only Window$ running software to program it
. Thanks!