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Good ROI Suggestions? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Hi! I'm new to home assistant and I'm wondering what would be worth the cost. A lot of the "smart" appliances seem overly expensive and automating them would only save me a handful of minutes each day. I live in canada where power is cheap, so things that save power aren't particulary useful. A way to open/close the windows and doors sounds useful and would save me the most time, but costs thousands. A way to keep track of what is in the fridge and propose recipes to avoid food waste would be nice but I'm not entirely sure how I would setup such a system.

Does anyone have ideas of worthwhile things I could setup that would be worth the cost?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can buy the sensors of aliexpress and link them with esp8266 via esphome (a home assistant addon) if you’re into it.

It’s fairly easy if you’re a tech savvy and will cost you next to nothing like 3 dollars each node which can have multiple sensors (temp / humidity / light / relay / etc).

It’s better to make dumb devices smart yourself to avoid being locked out. I literally cannot change the water level in my vacuum mopper if the server in china is down.