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Cloudless Smart Home: Thread, Zigbee, ... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Heyho,

as I will soon move into my first "own" apartment (have lived in shared apartments so far), I would like to set up some smart home devices. Primarily lights, but I am open to other ideas.

Looking into the topic I noticed that basically all cloudless setups need a server - often they use a Raspberry Pie, a low energy protocol - like Zigbee or Thread, and a managing software like Home Assistant or openHAB.

Currently, I think about using the Raspberry Pie 5 (should also be helpful for other projects such as Immich) together with some kind of USB to connect to the Thread network (guess there is something similar like conbee2 for Zigbee) and openHAB as the software for greater customization. While openHAB is probably overkill, as a computer scientist I think I might enjoy the greater customization options.

So my question: Are there any good tutorials for this setup? While I knew of Zigbee before this project, I wasn't aware of Thread and am just looking into it. I don't feel comfortable yet to double down on it without learning more on possible ways to connect Thread to openHAB on a Raspberry Pie.

Thanks in advance!

Alright: For now I have bought:

Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2, Zigbee 3.0/Thread/Matter USB-Adapter
Soyo MiniPC M4

Instead of choosing openHAB, I will start with Home Assistant. While some people argued that they use Zigbee without issues, I still feel like Matter/Thread is the more interesting standard. Given that you can only use one standard with a ZBT-2, I will try to find all my devices in the Matter/Thread ecosystem.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 2 months ago

Buy a Home Assistant green and self. Host HomeAssistant itself

Great software, and purchasing the green is a great way to support them. Also, the green is a beautiful and very high quality piece of hardware that's worth the money anyway.

Buy also the thread/ZigBee dongle they provide, again, top quality for the bucks and also support the project.