Automation, sensing and robotics • Re: PIR motion sensor with outdoor case?

If it is ZigBee then I would assume so, if it is WiFi then you shouldn't need to.


Also there is the community side too, where a lot of projects start, expand or just do the little things, but you have to search for them.

https://www.hacs.xyz/
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024 ... -projects/


MQTT
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/

(I just use the mosquito MQTT addin on HA itself)

Just spend a while looking around with HA and see if it is for you. It is Open Source and always will be do to thier laws.
From FAQs in this month's blog
"Is this the first step towards making Home Assistant closed source/proprietary/commercial?
No, that is impossible. Home Assistant will always remain open source. Home Assistant is owned by the Open Home Foundation, a Swiss non-profit foundation that is audited and governed, and—by law—bound by its mission. This means it will always be open source and cannot be bought or sold."



OpenHAB is another alternative too.

(I use HA as it was the easier to get into, I had started with OpenHAB.)

Statistics: Posted by bensimmo — Sat May 24, 2025 7:14 am

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