Well, sure, I could leave just the z-wave endpoint at home and move the server to the cloud, but that would mean that none of my automations would work if the network happens to be down. And my ISP is pretty damn good to keep me on line, but that’s one thing of my home automation I’m not willing to compromise. Everything has to be local and not dependent on any kind of connectivity to outside.
Sure, the things rely on the infrastructure (networking very much included) I have in place in my house and it’s not perfect by any stretch and my HA server in itself would most likely be ‘safer’ in the cloud, but it still is my home automation and I want to keep it local to avoid connectivity issues, latency and other stuff beyond my control.
And sure, should my server PSU die tomorrow, it would bring the whole system down. As I mentioned, the setup is far from perfect, but it’s built the way I like it and, for me, this is the best approach. You may weigh pros/cons differently, and that’s perfectly fine. I have my reasons and you have yours, both equally valid.
But I’d still rather not mess with hardware, I just need at least one physical server and other stuff around to keep things running the way I like them.
Even on the same network, I like having a Zigbee coordinator with an Ethernet port. I put it in a more central location in my house, which helped improve the network quality.
Well, sure, I could leave just the z-wave endpoint at home and move the server to the cloud, but that would mean that none of my automations would work if the network happens to be down. And my ISP is pretty damn good to keep me on line, but that’s one thing of my home automation I’m not willing to compromise. Everything has to be local and not dependent on any kind of connectivity to outside.
Sure, the things rely on the infrastructure (networking very much included) I have in place in my house and it’s not perfect by any stretch and my HA server in itself would most likely be ‘safer’ in the cloud, but it still is my home automation and I want to keep it local to avoid connectivity issues, latency and other stuff beyond my control.
And sure, should my server PSU die tomorrow, it would bring the whole system down. As I mentioned, the setup is far from perfect, but it’s built the way I like it and, for me, this is the best approach. You may weigh pros/cons differently, and that’s perfectly fine. I have my reasons and you have yours, both equally valid.
But I’d still rather not mess with hardware, I just need at least one physical server and other stuff around to keep things running the way I like them.
I agree with you :)
Even on the same network, I like having a Zigbee coordinator with an Ethernet port. I put it in a more central location in my house, which helped improve the network quality.