I’ve been going down the Home Assistant rabbit hole for quite a while now, automating various aspects of my home, setting up custom integrations with HACS, and building up a Tailscale reverse proxy system to be able to access it remotely whenever I want to. With that, I also discovered Zigbee, a wireless protocol that countless sensors and smart devices support. I’ve now gone down another rabbit hole with that, and I’m starting to buy sensors left and right to automate my home.
Right now, I’ve got a motion sensor, a door and window detector, two temperature and humidity sensors, a smart light bulb (with more on the way), and a smart knob that can be turned and supports button presses. It’s pretty crazy what you can do and how much a Zigbee network can transform your…