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Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020 and the impending revitalization of my home sent me on an evaluation journey what smart home solution to use for the new modern home.
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You have to know that while I want a smart home, I do have special needs. Maybe it's the pure-grade INTJ in me, but I tend to question existing majority solutions and opinions - a lot. When I intuitively (but it's an educated guess - really) believe something could be done **much** better, it usually could.
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You have to know that while I want a smart home, I do have special needs. Maybe it's the pure-grade [INTJ](https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality) in me, but I tend to question existing majority solutions and opinions - a lot. When I intuitively (but it's an educated guess - really) believe something could be done **much** better, it usually could.
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Therefore, also in this case, my smart home needs to be better and cheaper than that of "everyone else"(tm).
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In order to achieve that, I had a look at the available solutions on the market. [HomeMatic](https://www.eq-3.com/products/homematic.html), [Somfy](https://www.somfysystems.com/en-us/), even [KNX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNX_(standard)).
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Therefore, also in this case, my smart home needs to be better and - in relation to performance - cheaper than that of "everyone else"(tm). In order to achieve that, I had a look at the available solutions on the market. [HomeMatic](https://www.eq-3.com/products/homematic.html), [Somfy](https://www.somfysystems.com/en-us/), even [KNX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNX_(standard)).
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Nothing of that was truly convincing. Either these are "their own world" or even as a standard do not offer a convincing price/performance ratio.
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I had a look at various OSS projects trying to provide an abstraction and integration layer to all these solutions.
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