yea that's a good idea, isolating such devices on a separate network also helps for intercepting traffic, or active measures like TLS stripping, if you want to do protocol reverse engineering
tbf i already have that.... i am one of those people that has 4 subnets in a 50m2 apartment... the network topology is more like some kind of Winchester mystery house
but if you can you probably want to get bluetooth instead of wifi-controlled ones so the reach is restricted physically, this still leaves the app and its potential spyware to deal with but... 😫
boomer box? they have the time to volunteer & don't give a shit, Cuz, they r cycling out.........it's ffs hilarious!
If it requires a separate app, I won't buy it (except maybe for initial setup, or cloud auth, which unfortunately some devices require).
So far, using home assistant as a single point of control works pretty well.
oh home assistant looks kinda neat !
i currently just hacked my own app together (using godot and a websockets backend) to control lights etc, which was fun as a learning project but is also a hassle to maintain 😀
Big Home Assistant fan here! And it's made by a Dutch guy :-)
Easiest to run it on a dedicated Linux box somewhere, because it's a bit of a Docker circus.
I'm so glad I asked this and can see the wizardry you guys are on. Despite it being gobbledygook to me :)
Glad you're all having fun tho
Also I would recommend to integate with influxdb, for persistence of historical data. Then put grafana on top of that and you can add your grafana graphs into home assistant with the external web page card.
I've just been hoarding 1+ year of sensor data with no plan. Had to get a larger SSD (for other reasons too). This might be a good idea.
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