Want to control your home from your mobile
device, or automate mundane tasks like switching
on lights?
Frustrated by expensive home automation systems
that don't work with each other and each need
a different app to control?
You need OpenHAB; it's free, and you can run
the whole thing from a Raspberry Pi.
Apart from being free and open source, the
great thing about OpenHAB is that it works
with over 150 different types of smart home
products, from off the shelf commercial systems
like Z-Wave, Phillips Hue, or Harmony Ultimate
Remotes, to completely custom devices like
an Arduino or just generic HTTP requests.
Basically, you can control any kind of smart
home product out there.
There's a web interface, a mobile interface,
there's remote access to control your home
from anywhere, and you can program your own
custom interface if you're into that kind
of thing.
It's got a powerful scripting language for
automating tasks, far beyond the complexity
of any other smart home hub out there, or
you can use the web API to interact with OpenHAB
from popular automation tools like If This
Then That, or Tasker
The only downside to openhab is that it's
pretty tough to get installed and configured.
You don't need a computer science degree,
but it helps.
Alternatively, you can read our free guide
over at makeuseof.com, where we walk you step
by step through installing openhab, get you
familiar with the fundamentals of how to install
bindings and create items, and then show you
how to connect your system with IFTTT.
If you can read and type, you too get this
thing working... and look out for part 2 of
the guide, where we go through automating
with rules, adding z-wave sensors, and more
complex stuff.
Thank you for watching and I hope you're as
excited as I am to get started with OpenHAB
on Raspberry Pi.
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