I’m using FHEM with webfrontend via native browser and Rhasspy mobile app via alien dalvik on SFOS.
This combo is working well.
I have a couple of Hue light bulbs just because the Scintillon app exists, thank you for it!
I wouldn’t call it advanced automation what I’m using, just having the ability to wake at night and not be blinded by the bathroom light is a thing for me.
(The solution is made even more manual by the fact that the bulbs are effectively turned off by default, with the old ‘analogic’ power switch)
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I tried using Quartermaster with Home Assistant and found it a bit limiting/basic.
I ended up using the Android Home Assistant app which works very well.
I’m only using it at this stage with Paradox Alarm Interface (PAI) to control and monitor the house security alarm.
I’m using Cozify home automation. It can incorporate many different automation products into a one system; be it Philips Hue, Osram, Airam, Develco, Proove, Nexa, Heiman etc., Cozify can control them - from one hub!
They have an app on Android which works fine on Sailfish. But they also have a web portal to control home automation from and it works very well on Sailfish stock browser. In that way, no need to install any app, atleast I’m using the web portal only. And they have done it in a way that the portal works exactly as the app does too.
Warmly recommended.
Thanks for all of these amazing descriptions, it’s quite something to see how many of you have your homes automated. It seems to me there’s a lot of love been poured into these set-ups.
To summarise what I’ve read up to now, for the front-end there are a mixture of approaches:
- Home Assistant, Domiticz, FHEM, Cozify hub via the Web interface
- Philips Hue using various native and Android apps.
- Jupii for audio and video.
- Alexa app with Xiaomi devices, but with no native solution.
- Various impressive-sounding custom solutions.
For the device-end, there’s a huge variety: Sonoff, TASMOTA, Philips Hue, Xiaomi, LIFX, PAI, Osram, Airam, Develco, Proove, Nexa, Heiman and a bunch of amazing custom hardware.
I wasn’t expecting to see quite such variety, but I’m really glad all of these things are out there and in use with Sailfish OS.
I’d love to hear more.
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You don’t want to see my DIY 50v → 12v step down converters. Recycled components. Breadboard. Ah.
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Actually that sounds very interesting.
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Agreed… I think we do want to see it 
Pics or it didn’t happen
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Okidoke. Some yokel installed 50 volt DC halogen lamps under my entranceway’s roof. I put in 12 volt led lights (with pirs) … I have a lot of other pics of absurd electronic projects on offer.
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And, yes, I had to fetch a chair, disassemble the lamp mount, fidget with the volla phones flash setting, hold the lamp in the other hand, etc. So. Cheer, already.
EDIT: I am NOT climbing onto the roof to take apart my solar radiation measurement apparatus. Maybe in the summer.
Thanks @poetaster, your efforts are genuinely appreciated. I wish I had the skills to build things like that, but since I don’t it’s nice to see other people’s creations.
If anyone is interested in a kit of parts and a box to build one of these: https://github.com/poetaster/moat/raw/master/keep.v3_pcb.jpg (it’s an analog modular audio synth), send me a DM It’s a bit more complicated but makes funny noises! rampart & keep
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This is so crazy! I love it 
My home automation is more or less home build, implementing 1Wire, Lora, 433MHZ and USB, for temperature, doorbell, weather station and internet-radio alarm watch, with scale, indoor humidity and ventilation fan coming.
I mostly use a web interface, but have a small Sailfish app for viewing weather data.
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1Wire. Nice. What weather station hardware are you using? Commendable?
I have a fairly extensive Home Assistant deployment, with a few hundred entities by now, and a few dozen devices on Zigbee. I’d be delighted to show you around when you’re in Brussels, if you want. I use Quartermaster for controlling some very basic things (mainly when my Zigbee network went haywire and the lights didn’t trigger automatically), but I mainly use browser bookmarks to my HA web interface. For example, I preheat my car with a bookmark to the car’s ‘device’ page, and a second click to trigger the heating.
Other than that, I use Unifi for WiFi, and use that for presence tracking. That “kinda” involves Sailfish, since my phone is my presence tracker.
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@poetaster, I started using a ventus weather station (slightly modified with the battery replaced by a solar cell and a lithium battery) and a 144mhz receiver, but it didn’t deliver telemetry, and the anemometer had a tendency to get stuck, so now I use a kit with a homemade controller.
Cool, that then becomes the third HUE app, after Tint (by me) and Scintillon (by Flypig). I’m not telling you you should contribute there instead, but for awareness. At least Tint is very incomplete compared to the official app, and going beyond that was exponentially more work. Both are sparingly maintained, i think it is fair to say. You are welcome to e.g. pinch my discovery code if you don’t already have some.
As for what home automation i’m using… My Hue usage doesn’t even count as automation - it is just a way to remote or synchronously control lights. The little automation that is done on top of that happens in Lua on my router.
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I’m going to drag the bar a tad lower and let you know that Ikea Trådfri hub works as expected on Sailfish OS with its Android application - it’s simply Internet traffic after all. I don’t have the hub set up currently, as my current apartment doesn’t need its features anymore.
Speaking of home-built automation, I used to have a DIY controllable 230V power sockets built into my TV stand/cabinet, which consisted of a Raspberry Pi which controlled relays with a one-file web page and controls built with PHP and Python (and also hosted PiHole). The only downside was that it required a WLAN connection on my phone, which in an urban environment drains the phone battery rather quickly. I may still have some photographic evidence of it, I’ll post them if I find them!
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