Well, I’m going for it, this will be the occasion to take stock of what I have at home 
Let’s start with a short introduction
Andro is an old nickname I used when I registered on this forum, at that time @pierre-gilles announced that he was working on a promising V2, I thought I would follow this project with attention.
In real life, it’s Jean-Philippe (JP for the intimates 
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Young (yes yes 36 years is young!) father of 3 kids, I live in a longhouse renovated by ourselves south of Rennes (in Brittany).
On the job side, I work for a large telecommunications and internet provider (and TV, and banking and lots of other things we don’t suspect… etc), as a systems and network engineer.
On the dev side, apart from what dates back to my studies (not much actually, or outdated technologies), everything else is self-taught.
How I got into home automation
It all started with the assembly of a mini-pc to make a MythTV multimedia server/client.
Then, when buying the longhouse, I started to see things on a larger scale (2010, the year, not the living area), to think about home automation.
At that time, the need was not specific.
Not having done the electrical part, I had asked my electrician if he could suggest things, but it didn’t work out (in fact, in the rush of the construction site, neither he nor I followed up on the home automation aspect).
So I ended up wiring only RJ45 and nothing else in terms of info/home automation.
Once moved in and the work (+ or -, more - than + actually) finished, home automation started to germinate in my head.
What were my needs
Well I don’t know actually, because like many people I think, we don’t really know what home automation can bring to a house, apart from the roller shutters but I don’t have any!
On the other hand, I knew, and I still believe today, that in a more or less near future (this time more + than -), home automation will be natively integrated into houses.. but that’s another subject.
Over time, I still identified some needs like turning on my lights when I come home in the evening, and above all, having video surveillance, especially one that activates automatically without me having to press a button in the morning and evening (I did it for a while).
What equipment I chose
Wired or not wired? That is the question.
I wanted wired! no wifi!
Except that the construction finished, I had nothing wired for home automation, there was KNX but help the prices…
So, wireless …
However, on the Wifi side I wanted to limit, but it was before the tablet and the wifi-only laptop..
So, Wifi too!
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For the home automation part
After long comparisons, I ended up with the EnOcean protocol
https://www.enocean-alliance.org/
for the green side and above all, no batteries to change every 6 months. -
For third-party equipment
I still bet on wired (wired IP camera, rpi connected via RJ45, Sonos via RJ45..)
Implementation
« Computer » equipment:
- A Server (home made) KVM Hypervisor with the following roles per VM:
- ZoneMinder + unbound (local dns)
- Cozy Cloud (file / photo storage)
- Kresus (bank account tracking tool)
- Gladys (of course!)
- OpenVPN (for external access)
- NFS server (on the hypervisor)
- MythTV backend (on the hypervisor for TV streaming)
- A Gb switch for all the house cabling
- A PoE hub for the PoE camera
- A UPS for all this mess
- A Trendnet IPTV PoE Camera
- A USB Bluetooth dongle, a Hauppage TV USB dongle and an EnOcean USB dongle, a teleinfo dongle
« Home automation » equipment:
EnOcean
- 4 door opening detectors
- 1 repeater
- 2 relays for the garden lights
- 1 controlled outlet (out of order)
- 1 presence sensor
- 2 temperature sensors
- 1 switch
- 4-way switch
Hue
- the bridge
- 2 color LED strips
- 2 white bulbs
Bluetooth
- 2 gigasets keeper (for presence detection)
Sonos
- a Play 1 speaker
- a Play 3 speaker
RPI
- 1 RPI3 Kodi + Hyperion ambilight diy
- 1 RPI3 Kodi
- 1 RPI2 Raspotify
Usage
After trying OpenRemote and FHEM, it’s now Gladys that controls all this.
In summary, the functional scenarios:
- Turning on the hallway light at 5% when movement is detected at night on the mezzanine if the house is in ‹ sleep › mode followed by turning it off after 5 minutes
- Turning on the garden lights when I enter the home zone and it’s night
- Wake-up in our bedroom (gradual turning on of the 2 LED strips + progressive birds sound playlist on raspotify)
- Presence detection with gladys-bluetooth
- Activation of zoneminder if no one is at home + turning off the wifi
- Sending free SMS notifications for madam and pushbullet for me if intrusion (open door) or movement (zoneminder motion) if no one is in the house
- Notification of return of an inhabitant to the house + turning on the wifi when someone returns home
- Notification when EDF Red Tariff tomorrow
Ongoing work:
- Snips experiments for Voice integration (I gave up gladys-voice with google)
Future evolutions
- Get the EnOcean module on an RPI to put it at the heart of the house, currently, some equipment is too far from the dongle.
- Equip more temperature sensors
- Automate my heating system
- Better integrate Kodi and TV
- Manage my comings and goings and remote controls
Personal experience feedback
Clearly, think globally from the beginning of the renovation/construction…
There’s too much to say .. 
