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Are there any decent open source alternatives or should I be looking to go down the building route?

I am a coding newbie so would be a bit daunting!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Node-Red is probably your best bet
it's functional with a lot of plugins available as well as relatively easy due to the "flow" workflow

one other command mentioned Home Assistant but even among the Home Assistant community there are quite some people using Node-Red together with Home Assistant to achieve their goals

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I’m actually migrating away from Node-Red in HomeAssistant.

Don’t get me wrong i love Node Red, but HomeAssistant’s automations are now capable enough to do about 90% of what I need around the house.

Now, if you’re automating like a large growroom and you have hundreds of lights and sprinkler valves to automate against temp and soil sensors…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What are you using IFTTT for?