Always welcome. Best of luck with it & be careful working with our around mains electricity. Get a sparky in if you’re at all unsure.

If you’re looking at making a start on smarting up a home, or just bringing a load of existing smart devices under a single point of control - I can’t recommend Homeassistant enough.

The hardware requirements are any old lump of junk (bust laptop, etc) recent enough to have UEFI. Or just run on your existing PC as a virtual machine - that’s how I started.