Getting Started

[u/Traditional-While-92]

I'm new to home automation and am looking for advice.

I recently bought a small second home, and am looking to, if not necessarily automate it, at least remotely monitor it.

It came with Schlage locks (which appear to require z-wave to connect to) a nest thermostat (which appear close to its EOL) a couple of Ring cameras, and a couple of outlet controllers (I cant remember the brand). There is also an adt security system.

While I have things set up on nest and google home, I'd really rather have them controlled by my own server, am an experienced Linux admin, and it looks like for the z-wave, I need some kind of hub/controller anyway.

I do plan on replacing all outlets and switches in the house, for unrelated reasons, but obviously, that could factor into this project as well.

But im rather new to home automation, so can you all reccomend a crash course, website, medium article, etc that can help me get my bearing and understand my options?

thanks

[u/attticrattt]

Checkout homeassistant.io, will handle all you need and more

[u/kigmatzomat]

Other option is homeseer.com. You can buy a pre-configured Pi or get the software and install it on your own host device. I have run it on both Linux and windows.