Tasmota Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Where to start
  1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 27 Nov 2021

  Using a custom firmware like Tasmota or ESPHome will give you full control over the devices, you won't have to make an account and all the connection between those devices and Home Assistant will be over your local network.

• The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2021

  I just built a vacation home from the ground up and specced the "smart" features myself and did so very carefully. I've learned the hard way because I was already "orphaned" when I bought my current primary residence which had a high-end 'state-of-the-art' home automation system that was designed into the walls by the original owner. Unfortunately, it was cutting-edge tech for 2001. The original manufacturer of the system as well as the local dealer/installer both changed owners and product lines multiple times and were out of business over a decade ago.

  Fortunately, the hardware was pretty well-designed industrial grade gear consisting of cards mounted to back plane slots inside wall-mounted racks in the basement and I like working on 8-bit era arcade and pinball machines which shares many similarities. The saving grace is that the system is just old enough to predate being internet-connected, so the firmware is in EEPROM and was designed to stand alone forever if necessary.

  In my new place I was determined to avoid the same issues 25 years down the road so I've selected devices that run open source firmware on widely available, multi-source commodity hardware using long-lived open protocols. For example, the 62 in-wall dimmer switches have ESP8266 boards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266) and I installed the mature Tasmota open-source firmware (https://tasmota.github.io/docs/) in them so they don't require cloud connection or try to phone home. They function normally as light switches with no connection of any kind but can be optionally controlled via wifi by a Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant open-source software which hosts modular integrations with hundreds of different devices, protocols and standards.

• Must have Möbel/Gadgets euer Meinung nach?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/de | 23 Nov 2021
• Controlling house lamps from a computer
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/homeautomation | 15 Nov 2021
• Is there a market for this? Home automation without vendor lock-in...
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/homeautomation | 7 Nov 2021

  There is probably a market for wifi devices pre-flashed with tasmota or esphome, but i doubt it is a large as you (or I) would hope for. And there are shops catering for it too:

• Good smart power strips?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/smarthome | 6 Nov 2021
• I can't believe Linux does not have a reliable way no know whether a monitor is on/off
  1 project | reddit.com/r/linux | 3 Nov 2021
• Need help with esp32-cam
  1 project | reddit.com/r/esp32 | 28 Oct 2021
• How do i reproduce this with HomeKit copatable bulbs/lights?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/HomeKit | 22 Oct 2021

  Yes because when I think home automation for my home I think homebrew DIY, get a clue man your average joe doesn't want to fuck around with a git hub repository or this select list of products https://tasmota.github.io/docs/

• Difference in smart bulbs?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement | 18 Oct 2021

  As with most things, you get what you pay for. Generic Chinese-brand bulbs are bottom of the barrel. You might be able to flash this onto them if you're so inclined: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/

• Cybermonday 2021 - 4, 5 y 6 de octubre
  1 project | reddit.com/r/chile | 4 Oct 2021
• Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2021

  I've learned a lot about MQTT while setting up Home Assistant. Mosquitto is a pretty important part of my Home Assistant installation. I use it to control all of my Zigbee devices via "zigbee2mqtt" (buttons, switch modules, etc.), and also a smart kettle running Tasmota [1]. I also added a little patch to Tasmota so that my kettle responds with `418 I'm a teapot` [2]

  [1] https://tasmota.github.io/docs

  [2] https://github.com/ndbroadbent/Tasmota/commit/bbcf57faffbf5b...

• showdev: Serverless IoT Dashboard
  8 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2021

  The data is collected using Tasmota on an ESP8266. I soldered a BME680 directly to the ESP8266 pins and mapped the pins accordingly using the web config. I configured Tasmota to send the data to a free public MQTT broker provided by emqx. It would be ok to self host broker, but that wouldn't be as serverless. The Tasmota/ESP8266 is connected to my home wifi, and since it's only sending messages out, no special NAT changes or Port Forwarding was required.

• How to add LED brightness control to this code - Project Guidance
  1 project | reddit.com/r/arduino | 21 Sep 2021

  It's why most of us cheat and use a WS281x chip to provide one wire control with the FastLED or NeoPixel libraries. That said, I think the Tasmota project used to have code for brightness control on discrete RGB LEDs.

• How to long-press-to-dim?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/tasmota | 17 Sep 2021

  Have a check at this: https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/issues/10202