Brands We Love
Alexa
In our opinion the best smart speaker system. With group audio and a massive ecosystem that just works, we recommend Amazon's Alexa as your voice assistant.
Home Assistant
Running on pretty much any hardware, home assistant allows you to make your smart home really smart! With a range of automation types available we can make your smart home sing!
Esp Home
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems
Hue
One of the oldest brands that we will use, Hue really have cornered the market for reliable lighting solutions. Hue aren't the only lighting solution we recommend, but they are one of the best.
Sonoff
With a wide range of power options sonoff are great value and a really solid place to start with your smart home journey. With local control sonoff doesn't need an internet connection to work!
Tuya
With so many options from wifi and zigbee, tuya have built one of the biggest IoT platforms available. Using their smart life app you can control almost anything!
Flic
Sometimes you just want something you can physically press. Flic buttons are the solution! They can be mounted on almost every surface, we even have mounts for light switches.
TP-Link
Probably best known for their network equipment, TP Link also have smart home solutions under their Kasa and Tapo brands. Their network solutions are great value!
Unifi
Unifi offer great network equipment and we use their switches and access points a lot. They offer great value, availability is not great at the moment, so we offer the TP-Link Omada as an alternative.
Eufy
Eufy cameras are great. They are good value for money and include local storage options. They work well with Alexa and Home Assistant and we find customers love them! Eufy also offer robot vaccums, batteries and speakers under their parent brand Anker.
Tado
In our opinion tado offer the best heating solutions, they also now cover air conditioning. From thermostats to radiator control tado offer a fully smart heating solution.
Beelink
While we love the Raspberry Pi, sometimes it's not enough. We use Beelink PC's either as "baremetal" server or as a small virtualisation host running Proxmox.
