My home already had a stack of Beelink mini pcs running my home lab, flipping one to a dedicated HoemAssitant box has been the best decision home IoT decision in recent years.
Pairing it with a old tablet for custom views has been key to getting buy-in from other people. These can be easily mounted right where a key decision needs to be made and only activate when someone is nearby – i.e. the shoe rack / surfboard rack
One of our local beach especially has been a “killer app” – using custom API integrations to scrape the water health quality reports, local weather, swell conditions, thumbnails and live streams from local surf cams and changing the lights in the house right before when the surf will be good, or rain is coming is phenomenal.
