Migrating to Home Assistant - Goals
It’s been a while since I’ve done an update on Wodehouse - largely because not much had changed in our configuration. But, we’ve recently done a bunch of upgrades (removing gas line, installing heat pump, ERV etc.) and collected a variety of new bits and bobs (such as Lifx, Bird buddy and Span).
Because, inevitably, a smart home owner ends up acquiring a hodge-podge collection of devices from various manufacturers, managing those devices and automatons play nicely with each other gets a bit cumbersome.
Because of this, we’re in the process of migrating all the brains of our operations to Home Assistant. It’s not complete, but the goals of our migration are:
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Downsize our hardware needs (we have had an explosion of proprietary hubs!)
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Build resilience to manufacturers moving away from open compatibility with our existing hardware or even turning off their services
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Centralise our automation logic, for better maintainability and sanity of remembering which service runs what
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Have accessibility to our services from the web, rather than needing half a dozen different native applications
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Make more of our systems available offline
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Continue to ensure automatons are progressively enhancing the house
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Monitor and adjust our energy use more accurately and easily
So, that’s the plan. I also want to do more short posts here, because writing long reviews is arduous and honestly kind of boring. I will also be doing a site migration to 11ty, because the terrible Squarespace UI is also a major energy-sapper and I’d like to stop paying them for the privilege of torturing me.