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The seed setup. Powerwall + solar, heat pump everything, Z-Wave smart home, Home Assistant on a Pi, and a projector in the living room. The all-electric, suburban-dad reference build.
Front porch
Zooz's 500-series Z-Wave Plus paddle switch for wired on/off control of lights, with direct 3-way and 4-way wiring and a required neutral wire. Now discontinued and replaced by the 800-series ZEN71.
Z-Wave deadbolt on the front door. Pairs with the SmartThings hub for codes and lock-state automations.
Front-door video doorbell. Cloud-leaning. Pairs with the Ring app and Alexa.
Living room
Living room voice control. Plays into the broader Google Home ecosystem.
Wall-mounted projector on the second-floor entry wall. Doubles as the screen surface.
Streaming on the living-room projector. The Plex client lives here.
Office
Wired indoor camera. Local RTSP if you want it; cloud if you do not configure it.
Garage
Wi-Fi sprinkler controller in the garage. Skips watering based on local weather. Cloud-leaning.
Add-on that lets Adam open and close the garage from the phone. Pre-dates the MyQ lockdown.
Backyard
Variable-speed pool pump. Quiet, energy-sipping, runs the Trouble Free Pool turnover schedule.
Battery and solar panel camera in the backyard. Wire-free placement.
Whole home
Tesla Powerwall 2
× 2$17,400Whole-home battery. Pairs with solar and the grid. Adam runs two for ~27 kWh of usable storage.
Rooftop solar feeding the Powerwalls and the grid, built on Enphase IQ8 microinverters (one per panel). Adam is grandfathered on NEM 2.0 / TOU-D-PRIME. Listed price is per Enphase IQ8-series microinverter (~$215 MSRP).
Whole-home heat pump, relocated from garage to attic. All-electric house, no gas line.
Heat pump water heater. Quieter and cheaper to run than resistive. Part of the all-electric posture.
The Aeotec rebadge of the SmartThings hub. Runs Adam's Z-Wave devices and bridges to the SmartThings app.
Wi-Fi 6 (AX4300) dual-band router, 6 streams, 1.5GHz tri-core CPU, one USB 3.0 port. Discontinued (end of service).
Pi 4 running Home Assistant. Local automation that does not depend on any vendor cloud.
Adds up 16 of 19 devices we can price; 3 are not in the catalog yet. Current catalog prices, not what this member paid, and hubs or monthly fees are not included.
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