Home automation with a Raspberry Pi

Conclusions

ioBroker and the Raspberry Pi bring order to the jungle of smart home components from a wide variety of manufacturers. The very compactly programmed and at the same time well-thought-out software requires hardly any resources. Thanks to the many available adapters, it nevertheless unites numerous vendor-specific home automation devices under a unified interface. The only downer is the huge technical complexity of the program because of its feature set, which means a correspondingly steep learning curve for users, for which careful reading of the documentation is necessary.

Infos

  1. ioBroker: https://www.iobroker.net/
  2. Installation: https://www.iobroker.net/#en/download
  3. Angry IP Scanner: https://angryip.org
  4. Fing: https://www.fing.com/products/fing-app
  5. Blockly documentation: https://github.com/ioBroker/ioBroker.javascript/blob/master/docs/en/blockly.md
  6. Widgets: https://github.com/ioBroker/ioBroker.docs/blob/master/docs/en/viz/widgets.md

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