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irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 days ago Home Assistant
I thought about Home Assistant, but I’m not sure what I’d do with the rest of it’s capabilities. I live in a house built in the latter part of the 40’s sitting in the middle of 22 acres. Besides a monitor for all my security cams which I already have set up, there’s not a whole lot to automate with Home Assistant around here. LOL 2 rooms, one bath, part of which have the original logs from when it was a log cabin. Not a whole lot to keep up with.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Oh see for me that sounds like a dream to set up HA for…. (also the kind of acreage I’m trying to get). Off the top:
It mostly depends on what you’re doing with the property and what your goals might be. HA would be a lot to set up just for weather - magicmirror would definitely be the better choice for simple - but if you’ve got other stuff you are doing or want to do, HA would be a dream.
Well, I used to be a farmer among other things in a former life. I’m 71 now and a bit too old to be running a farm full time. So I lease most of it out to other farmers in the area to grow silage for their livestock. I still retain some for my livestock, and personal grows. I also have parceled out a couple of half and quarter acre plots for the townies to grow their community gardens. Positive cash flow and all that.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
So I don’t have the acreage right now, so I’m going to call this gardening level - but what I do with HA includes things like:
Inside I have sensors to check for moisture around my water heater, automation for my lighting (like when I get out of my bed, the led strip turns on, brightness determined by room light levels and time of day), etc. I work from home, so I also have a light above my door that acts like an on-air light - if I join a call my wife/kids know not to interrupt me (light works great, kids still need operational adjustment here and there).
If all you want is that weather dashboard though….
Magic Mirror + OneCallWeather module + rain map module and you’ve got a slick setup, maybe add in some camera streaming via rtsp for a bonus. And if you go homeassistant later, you can add a module for that too.
Micro Farming. ;)