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Over the summer I’ve started automating my home and can’t stop automating! It’s been running for a few months now and I’m pretty satisfied with the result, so it was now the time to share it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What got me started is that here in Quebec, our heat is mostly electrical with baseboards, so one thermostat for each of them is needed. I previously had Aube programmable thermostat<\/a> : they’re not bad, but the scheduling you can do is limited. Another problem is that they are plugged to the main power, so they will lose their programming if the power goes off. There are internal batteries in them, but those are not good forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution I settled on was rolling out my own system with Home Assistant, and controlling the whole thing from a Raspberry Pi cluster. That way, if the power goes down, the programming is still in the Raspberry Pi and won’t just disappear into thin air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a few months I only had to reboot it once due to a bug, and it never lost power since it’s on the same UPS as my computer.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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It was important to me that the setup did not require the Internet to work since it controls heating, and you don’t want to lose that when it goes down to -20 C (around 0 F) in the winter. I was looking for something more resilient, not less! In fact, I was proved right after completing the first build: a few days later the Internet cable going into the house was torn, leaving us without an Internet connection for many days (it was loads on fun with remote working).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, if the whole thing even goes down, the Sinop\u00e9 devices I choose can also be controlled manually on the device without an application. There is no requirement to go through the Home Assistant control pane to change a temperature or switch on a light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n