Which smart home platform to choose?

Question

Do it yourself

Tell me, please, what smart home platforms currently exist and which one is best to choose as a universal one for your home?
The plans include covering the house with electronics such as water, gas, electricity meters, light sensors, temperature. Several houses.
There is a task of tracking by GPS your position, the position of the car, various parameters of the car (via OBD) with forwarding to a server to collect statistics.
We need an architecture like server <-> controller and server <-> client
The server must be one, store all the data.
The controller can be a PC, smartphone or arduino / rapsberry. The structure should be such that each house can have a separate PC that collects data from all sensors and sends it to the main server. The car must have a smartphone or tablet connected to the on-board network, collecting data about the car and sending it to the main server).
A client is an application that receives data from the main server and displays on the screen, and the set of elements must be like a schema - i.e. opened the designer, put tabs, widgets on the form (like Android desktops), set them up (for example, showing the temperature in one of the houses plus controlling the light in the kitchen), saved it as a scheme and then you can open it on any device (at work on a PC , on your smartphone) and see all these elements.

So far I have found OpenHAB and OpenRemote, but I haven’t dug deep into them and I don’t know if they can provide such opportunities.
Still, of course, the ability to refine and create your own protocols and modules plays a role. The last two products are written in Java, and I'm a .Net developer, but in general it's not important, you can probably relearn to suit your needs.

Answer 1

A lot has been done in the MajorDoMo project - do-it-yourself smart home . It remains to fasten the ODB, but it is better to agree with the programmers of the ODB Car Doctor, Tortuqe and similar programs

Answer 2

Universal platforms are those that are used in fairly large installations.
And there aren't many of them.
KNX standard - for light, HVAC. This is from "home" solutions.
Crestron, AMX, Control4 Savant - "general" automation systems, along with AV multiroom functions and good visualization tools. On specialized touch panels, tablets, smartphones.
There are almost no restrictions, they cost a lot, there is a secondary market for some components, say, through ebay. There you can get equipment for half the price, but without a guarantee.
Savant "dances" from the ideology of Apple. Often uses components from Apple, flooded with their firmware and built into their devices. You can make it very beautiful, but very expensive.
Solutions from Legrand (like NuVo) - suitable for entry-level systems (although the price is already decent), they have many limitations. I don't like them.
Quite budget solutions like Mi Casa Verde + visualization, say, on iRule. For the money it's ok, but in reality it's quite low. Although they are deployed / configured much easier than the same Crestron. You can quickly “make it beautiful”, but complex scenarios are not normally implemented.

Answer 3

Judging by the regular questions here, it’s time to cooperate and cut something with the local community of straight-handed IT people, and sell it, otherwise there are not so many solutions, but they cost decent amounts with strapping.
I had several ideas, some I even described to someone in a personal, you need to find that correspondence in a personal

Answer 4

Z-wave, Open-ZWave
right there on habra
habrahabr.ru/post/187268/
habrahabr.ru/post/129743/
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habrahabr.ru/post/141766/
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Answer 5

I recently looked at agocontrol

Answer 6

We need an open cross-platform product, and one that most developers can work with, i.e. should be compatible with most popular languages. Well, let's say, wrappers for writing modules in Python, a Mono garter, etc.
It’s just that no one will do it) More precisely, we need an organizer who can gather all those interested in a bunch. There are more than enough of them here, but everyone saws their own birdhouse, because it's easier this way)

Answer 7

DeviceHive www.devicehive.com

Answer 8

1-M Smart Home www.1-m.biz
supports a bunch of wireless sensors from different manufacturers
simple setup - no need to be a programmer
for self-implementation

Answer 9

Java Embedded - definitely.

Answer 10

look at www.insyte.ru - it seems to be what you need.

Answer 11

If you seriously want to build a Smart Home, then look at the European KNX standard, which is already 26 years old and is supported by all European companies producing electrical installation products, so as not to be tied to one manufacturer or a closed standard.

• You can study and do it yourself ( see here )
  
• You can find a KNX smart home installer and buy a service ( see google )
  

Answer 12

Look towards https://home-assistant.io/