Smart Home Infrastructure

The posts in this part of the site talk about the infrastructure and “plumbing” within the Smart Home. These posts discuss the hardware, software and configurations which allow the components of a connected smart home to run and communicate with each other.

Self-Hosting

You can certainly run a “Smart Home” using something as simple as a Philips Hue hub and a couple of “smart speakers” (some of which can replace the hue hub). Kicking it up a notch, you could install a purpose-built smart home hub like the Home Assistant Green which through its Add-On store also allows you to install other useful services. Before you know it, the smart home rabbit-hole as broken through into a parallel tunnel from the self-hosting rabbit-hole and your Home Assistant dashboard is showing the status of your ad-blocking DNS and you’re working out if 64GB is enough memory in that new mini-PC you could run Proxmox on and how many drives you’ll need to install in your new Network Attached Storage (NAS) device.

So, in this section you will also find posts related to Self-Hosting, the hardware, software and rabbit-holes that come with taking control of more than just your smart lights and temperature sensors…