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Is there a curated list of recommended IoT devices? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Pretty much what the title says. I want some ideas on what smart home devices are good and play nicely with the Home assistant. I know Tuya for example are more or less fine, Shelly are good but overpriced, in my opinion. I am also using Hue, which works great but costs a lot.

I am planning to revamp my whole IoT setup and Home Assistant and migrate from Docker running on top of RPi to a VM setup. I have a Sonoff ZigBee gateway and plan to try to add all devices to it.

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[–] BigNerdAlert@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://zigbee.blakadder.com/

You can also filter by zha, MQTT etc.

I have a combination of sonoff, ikea, lidl, and a few tuya. Be careful with tuya versions, I’ve bought hardware that wasn’t compatible but looked like it was

[–] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they are just white labeling the devices

[–] nottelling@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be real nice if the blackadder list somehow flagged devices that are no longer available.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

They do but due to the lack of good labeling it's hard to tell which one you're getting in stores. A very large portion of stuff produced after mid-2022 doesn't work - at least with Tasmota - and their website does note that