Open SmartHome System "Prototype for Everyone"

Such projects strongly thrive on the fun and fascination of creating something from one's own mind. I think that's great. As a private individual project, you should just as little start adding up the hours in euros as you wouldn't count the hours spent sunbathing. It may be that a decent product comes out of it, with which the customer can use inexpensive peripherals. For a product, rather thin.

: What would the USP be?

: If you can build your own blockchain and have knowledge of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, get together with and found a corporation based on crypto. Capital raising is currently really interesting there. The product is the new smart home technology - but it has to have something groundbreaking to attract investors. All that’s missing is someone who accompanies the process with the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority until approval and serves the marketing appropriately targeted in the crypto scene.

@superzapp : What would the USP be?

That is also my big question mark.

So far, I see an infrastructure put together from miscellaneous components, partly of Chinese cracker level, implemented, which existing software developers (far too expensive for this job) are supposed to make project-specifically operable. A custom solution that only this provider understands. Why should anyone want that?

I can assure you that all experiences are already present with us (including Blockchain). Just give us a little more time before you tear the project apart... O.K.?

Then don't rebuild what already exists in abundance. Build something self-learning. Or a system that requires hardly any investment and where every idiot can _really_ click together a smart home. Not by omitting functions and making it simple, but the full complexity, simply made for everyone. THAT would be the next big step in my opinion. Because currently smart home fails with the masses due to - investment - expensive services / follow-up costs for changes - benefits of smart home are unknown Superzapp, just take this as direct feedback from people who have already implemented something like this themselves. Especially undergasse and also mycraft know a lot about it.

Give us just a little more time before you tear the project apart... O.K.?

I don't want to tear anything apart. Understanding would be great. What is the core of the matter? What is substantially better than in other systems? It doesn't have to work perfectly now during a development phase. I find the goal interesting.

Because currently Smarthome fails in the masses due to - investment - expensive service / follow-up costs for changes - advantages of Smarthome are unknown

That's how it is. It is currently and will probably remain just a luxury for a while. But I like to compare it to integrated nav systems or trivial power windows in cars. For years, finest extra equipment, today standard. When it comes to houses, Germans are unfortunately ultraconservative. In the States, it looks completely different. Of course, their shacks only cost a fraction of our houses, but here the often scarce money unfortunately flows elsewhere. I actually didn't want to say anything about the actual topic... I don't have anything productive to contribute, but here is my opinion I somehow find the phrase "for everyone" most disturbing about this solution. At first glance, this thing looks to me like one of the many already existing cheap DIY solutions, just on a somewhat higher level because of the manpower behind it (although I have seen the worst smarthome horror cabinets with computer scientists and highly decorated engineers so far). I only skimmed it so far because this approach interests me little to not at all, but it seems to me like a mix of classic DIY Pi smarthome and Loxone-like actuators, with openHAB layered on top (I assume OpenHub is a typo). That would be—not to diminish you—a. nothing new and b. neither clearly cheaper than "real" solutions nor suitable for largely clueless people. Nevertheless, I will continue to follow this here very gladly, maybe it will be the "next big thing" after all.

Build something self-learning.

THAT does not yet exist in a functioning form. In this field, I (or a colleague from the industry and I) have already experimented with Watson and something else based on AWS. It really had a lot of potential, but the intelligence came from a large German corporation and will probably stay there.