Brewing…
I've been involved in home automation in some way shape or form for a long, long time. Started with X10 on a Tandy! Yeah that long. Everyone knows about Home Assistant so I won’t get into details about it. HA is one of the most popular and widely known systems. I started using it when it was still young and every update was a breaking change. I’ve used commercial systems (I’m a certified developer installer for RTI Control). I’ll just list one’s I’ve used. I’ve gone through the devices from X10, Insteon, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Lutron, Shelly, Random IP devices, Aqara Zigbee, Aqara Matter, etc etc… you get the point. I’ve learned a lot from all of these various systems. Mainly I’ve never been completely happy with any of them. There’s always some quirk or feature missing or doesn’t work or product team doesn’t care. Well… maybe there’s an alternative. Maybe.