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I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri/HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets)

https://home-assistant.io

https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER314

https://energenie4u.co.uk/catalogue/product/ENER002-4

I wouldn't call it simple to set up, but it was cheap - about £70 (not including Alexa device, which could even be the same pi - https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app/wiki/Raspberry... )



I'm pretty much doing the exact same.

Home Assistant

Custom TX board to transmit to the Etekcity sockets

https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Wireless-Electrical-Househol...

Using Alexa to control those outlets via Home Assistant Emulated Hue component. Then I have a couple groups defined in Home Assistant for my living room lights, so I can say "Alexa, turn off living room lights" and it'll turn off my three outlets. I can also do "Alexa, turn off living room light one" to just turn off a particular light. One thing that I've noticed with Alexa and Home Assistant is that I have an outlet labeled "Xmas Light" and I can either say "Alexa, turn on Xmas Light" or "Alexa, turn on Christmas tree light" and it seems to discern between the two.

Overall I love this combo and is working pretty dang good.

Next goal is to use PIR sensors so when I go to the basement it'll automatically turn on the basement lights.


I literally clicked into the comments here to mention how awesome Home Assistant is at things exactly like this. Glad to see I am not the only happy user / occasional contributor!


Home Assistant has a staggeringly large base of contributors. I think that's in part because there are a ton of individual use cases that spark a contribution, but I think it also speaks to how well Paulus handles contributions.


Couldn't agree more. Also, thanks for fixing the timing attack issues wrt HASS :)


Why not distribute the image as a one-off rPi bootable?


That exists as one (of many) installation options:

https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/installation-raspb...


https://youtu.be/wh0OoLUTeM8 Just added a video :)


You've now posted links to your video four times in this thread. Perhaps that's enough?


Sorry! I just made and it and I'm still hyped about it. I though the people I replied to would be interested.


Home Assistant is awesome. So much cleaner than OpenHAB. I just wish it supported Insteon PLM natively. For now, I'm making REST calls been OpenHAB and home Assistant to support this.




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