loujr15

You basically just created your automation. Now, all you need is home assistant, an energy monitoring plug, and your smart speaker (Alexa, Google,or both) and put your requirements into an automation. I'm willing to help you build this automation if you get stuck.

Home assistant and Switchbot temperature sensor is what I use to monitor the temperature in my apartment. Simple lil dashboard to give me a visual of each temperature sensor, thermostat, and current outdoor temperatures.

I then created a template sensor to give me an average temperature of each sensor in each room to be used in an automation that controls my thermostat.

This is by far my favorite automation cause I not only use the average temperature in my home sensor, but I also use outdoor temperature, and the season integration home assistant has to help control my thermostat throughout the year without me having to adjust it for the different seasons.

This is also tied to my laundry automation and cooking automation to help reduce the pain on my bills. I'm still working on this automation because winter hasn't fully hit us here yet in Wisconsin, so I'm still collecting data as the weeks pass by.

So my idea is that by next year, when spring comes around, this will be a flawless automation that will run without me worrying about wasting unnecessary energy when the thermostat is on.

Depends on what you use to record the audio and your smart home capabilities.

Tbh, you don't have to switch if you don't want to. There still is a strong community behind SmartThings. There are lots of groups on Facebook and a few people who do content on YouTube for SmartThings. You just have to dig deeper to find them.

If you do decide to switch over to your home assistant, you practically have everything you need already. The only thing that is missing is a hub to run home assistant on, which can be installed on basically anything.

The best part is that whatever you decide to run home assistant on, you can integrate your smartthings hub to home assistant, and at your convenience, add things over to home assistant.

So basically, you have many options to choose from if you want to make the switch.

Remote control, voice control, daylight/sunset, scenes, bed occupancy sensor, light lux sensor, motion sensors, and an nfc tag. I use them all depending on the automation.

I can only think of one guy. Brian from Automate your life. Everyone is switching to Home Assistant. Back when I first started off, it used to be a lot of people behind SmartThings. Now, it's all about Home Assistant or Homekit now. I made the switch when they sold everything over to Aeotec, and everything just got bad after that.

WLED

Home assistant local voice control.

Home Assistant.

Any smart plug and motion sensor will work. You just need to pick what wireless protocol you want and set up your rautomation. My question is, why do you want a motion sensor to turn on a neon light sign?

Homekit is way better. I don't know anyone who uses savant.