You might find interesting and useful info on Pete Scargill's blog; he's a cranky old Brit but writes prolifically and tries out lots of widgets and toys.
https://tech.scargill.net/
My home automation is fairly old but it's what was around for a sensible price when I built my house in 2010; I have a load of Insteon equipment driven by IndigoDomo running on a mac mini. More modern Matter/Thread equipment seems like a sensible option, but you might look at HomeAssistant, Domoticz and so on for open source stuff. I've made a load of temp/humidity sensors using the older ESP8266 boards working via MQTT to monitoring software I wrote for myself (mostly, admittedly, to test the MQTT client I wrote for Smalltalk).
Pico 1 or 2 would be quite appropriate devices to make your own widgets, though remember you'll almost certainly want wifi/ble enables boards. The ESP ones already have that by default - oh, and they can be programmed using the faux-Arduino IDE, which is a nice simple way to do it.
https://tech.scargill.net/
My home automation is fairly old but it's what was around for a sensible price when I built my house in 2010; I have a load of Insteon equipment driven by IndigoDomo running on a mac mini. More modern Matter/Thread equipment seems like a sensible option, but you might look at HomeAssistant, Domoticz and so on for open source stuff. I've made a load of temp/humidity sensors using the older ESP8266 boards working via MQTT to monitoring software I wrote for myself (mostly, admittedly, to test the MQTT client I wrote for Smalltalk).
Pico 1 or 2 would be quite appropriate devices to make your own widgets, though remember you'll almost certainly want wifi/ble enables boards. The ESP ones already have that by default - oh, and they can be programmed using the faux-Arduino IDE, which is a nice simple way to do it.
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