I love automating things, and smart home design is more than a hobby for me at this stage. Whether you’re planning a new smart home, renovating, or living with a setup that has grown slow, unreliable or confusing, I can help you get to something that simply works, and stays under your control.
Start with a discovery call. We’ll talk through your home, what you’d like it to do and what you already have. From there I’ll propose a design and a scoped project, so you know what’s involved before any work starts.
Planning and design
Lighting, heating, blinds, security cameras, door locks, energy monitoring, presence detection: it’s easy to buy devices that don’t work well together. I’ll help you decide what’s worth automating, choose devices and protocols that fit your home, and plan the network and hub that everything relies on.
Home Assistant
Home Assistant is an excellent, vendor-neutral platform with thousands of integrations, and it keeps your home working locally rather than depending on someone else’s cloud. I design and build setups on the official Home Assistant hardware from Nabu Casa, on a Raspberry Pi, or in Docker, and can take over or tidy up an existing installation.
Zigbee, Z-Wave and Wi-Fi devices
Whether you use official hubs or USB sticks, I’ll get you to a reliable setup built on proven integrations like ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT, with a sensible mesh layout so devices don’t keep dropping off.
Home network and security
A smart home is only as reliable and secure as the network underneath it. I’ll review your Wi-Fi, separate smart devices from your personal computers where it makes sense, and make sure remote access is set up safely.
Ongoing advice
Once your home is up and running, I’m available for occasional reviews, upgrades and new ideas, whether it’s adding solar and battery monitoring or making automations smarter.