Hello From SW Florida

[PCman]

Hey everyone.
I've been tinkering with Home Automation since the Early 1980's with X10, and Running HomeSeer software since 1990.
Since I'm in the process of upgrading all my control device to Z-Wave or Zigbee and I don't care to spend a small fortune to upgrade HomeSeer, so I'm researching here to find other
solutions. Like WiFi Controlled devices such as Sonoff, and RF devices like Etekcity Zap Switch Outlets
So Far I've found interest in Home Assistant, and OpenHab, but the Sonoff devices controlled by Node-Red and ESP Easy have fully captured my attention because of the low cost.
So I'm here to learn all about it from you folks..

Thanks. PCman

[manjh]

Check out Domoticz, as domotica server..

[Duci]

Check out Domoticz, as domotica server..

Agree! I use it, and can confirm it to be inexpensive, and it integrates a lot of different technologies nicely (such as Zwave, RFlink/RFXcom, but also ESPeasy, of course. )

[PCman]

Thanks for the suggestion on Domoticz.
Do you know if it supports legacy devices like X10?
I have a lot of these devices still working beautifully after 20 years.

[Duci]

Thanks for the suggestion on Domoticz.
Do you know if it supports legacy devices like X10?
I have a lot of these devices still working beautifully after 20 years.

I assume that is 433mHz RF, correct? I have some COCO stuff around the house and have an RFXcom transceiver connected to my system (a Raspberry Pi in the meter closet) to switch these. When I go in the configuration page of RFXcom within Domoticz I do see X10 in the protocol list. So it appears so. Then again I do not own any X10 devices (at least not that I know of) so I cannot test for you.

[manjh]

Have a look here:http://letscontrolit.com/. Go to the RFLink pages and check if your devices are supported.
RFLink is quite similar in function but considerably heaper than RFXcom.