My current use-case is that lights turn on and off based on LUX and presence detection in my garden / front door to turn the lights to full intensity when needed. I can also turn different scenes on and off using the friends of Hue switch i have installed in my living room. All hue lights and accessories are connected towards Deconz, and controlled via node-red.
Reason back then was because i wanted to have local control, but downside is that i have to add Google assistant support for lights / routines etc myself and that i have no firmware updates. All this DIY logic also needs to be maintained, so i am kind of re-thinking my setup but i would like to have your input on it.
So what i am now thinking of is the following:
- Remove all ‘official’ HUE lights from Deconz and move that back to the Hue Bridge. This would give me firmware updates, remote control and google assistant.
- Reconfigure the Friends with Hue switches to turn on/off scenes and dim lights.
- Add the Hue bridge to Home Assistant
- Use Node-red only as glue, e.g. react on state changes from HA devices (e.g. Lux), and control HA devices (indirectly controlling the Hue lights via that route)
- Custom Zigbee devices would still be connected via Deconz (e.g. Xiaomi stuff). Events will be handled in Node-red and controlling HA entities.
Are there any downsides on such an approach?