As I've gotten more progress on my restored home sensor network, I
realized I have a least one immediate use case for some active control
of an element based on that data:
if (outside_temp < (bedroom_temp - 2)) and bedroom_temp > 72:
turn_on_window_fan()
I could throw another pi directly at this problem, however it seems
like using some home automation fabric is probably a better long term
choice (then I could just switch the outlet directly by remote
control). It seems that Insteon and Z-Wave are the current contenders
out there. From what I can tell both have relatively sane ways of
writing python code to talk to the fabrics (given that you get the
right controller).
Anyone have opinions on which would be better. My use case is writing
all the home automation myself in python for now, and all running on
Linux. So anything that that I can't use with that is straight out.
Thoughts appreciated,
-Sean
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http://dague.net
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