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Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi! I am running Umbrel on a Raspberry Pi 4 and I have "Home Assistant" installed in it, I oly have some smart lights connected to it. I would like to integrate a Thermostat with HA. But I am a bit overwhelmed with the different types of connections (Z-wave, Zigbee, Wifi, ...)

Do you guys have any kind of recommendation, what connection is better? I would like to keep it local (or connecting remotely via Tailscale) but I would like to avoid any cloud or third-party server solution.

What thermostat hardware can I buy?

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I like this one but I’m not sure why a $5 microcontroller, 4-5 relays and a screen costs so much. And it’s not even a great screen. I kinda like it to be more of a full color LCD screen. Just my opinion.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Welcome to the world of electronic gadgets. You're right there's nowhere near $100 worth of hardware in this thing. I'd also love a color touchscreen. But I'd rather a color touchscreen that I could integrate in HA than one running some proprietary cloud connected ThermostatOS.

    You could do that yourself- put an old tablet on the wall, run power to it, then get something like a zooz zen16 multi-relay or an ESPHome relay board to drive the hvac. Then the thermostat becomes a totally software defined virtual thing in Home Assistant that pulls data from a temp sensor in the room and controls the HVAC as appropriate.

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