ralbright Posted October 16, 2023 Posted October 16, 2023 With me downsizing into a fifth wheel, I am wanting to take many of my smart home structure into the trailer with me. The eISY looks to be that it could be extremely powerful to control various aspects of an RV. Has anyone thought of doing so?
paulbates Posted October 16, 2023 Posted October 16, 2023 What types of things are controlled in your smart home structure you wish to bring with you? There's to groups of HA enthusiasts; part of the answer depends on which of those you see yourself in and what you are automating: Hands off Automation - you want events to happen on their own by schedule and/or sensor Assistant Automation - you want to tell Alexa, google or your phone to turn something on and it turns devices on or does things. Which of those 2 sounds like what you want to do? If you're looking for the second type 2., that suggests you have relatively low latency internet available, regularly. 1
ralbright Posted October 16, 2023 Author Posted October 16, 2023 Thank you for the thought out statement. I have been a bit in both camps for years with my own house. (But now that I am selling it and moving into a fifth wheel I would like to bring part of that automation with me.) Obviously there will be differences, as most of the automation will revolve around 12VDC devices vs 120VAC devices. I will have relatively low latency internet available most places I go (I do have Starlink for the fifth wheel) as well as backup of cellular internet. Just pondering if the eISY is a good platform for this. I have seen a lot of people that use Home Assistant for this type of automation, and I really do not want to give up the great platform that I have with UDI.
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