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Any docker solution to control smart light bulb? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Konraddo@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I own a couple TP-Link Tapo Wi-fi light bulbs. Currently, each family member installs an app on the phone to control the light bulbs. I wonder if there's a way to do the same but in a browser (via docker app on my NAS). And because we may use smart devices of other brands in the future, it seems too much trouble to install yet another app on each phone.

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 31 points 9 months ago (13 children)

That's what home assistant is built to do. There is a docker version, but I hit limits pretty quick and fired up an old raspberry pi running HomeassistantOS

One app, many devices & brands, custom interfaces for each member.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 11 points 9 months ago (12 children)

What limits did you hit?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 7 points 9 months ago (11 children)

It was many, many years ago, but if I recall some of the add-ons or installations didn't work in the docker version. I started with docker on a Synology server, but I gave up on the whole project for a year until I found a Pi in a drawer I forgot I had.

HAOS just feels more "complete" to me.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah. I'm running HA out of docker currently and haven't hit any walls, but I'm not exactly pushing it. There's an annoyance where I have to tell HA to trust my docker's default IP, and there was some reverse-proxy messing around I had to do to get it working on my network. Once it's up and loaded, it's indistinguishably HomeAssistant.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 3 points 9 months ago

I run mine behind a reverse proxy too and had to do that as well. Seems like a common thing there should be a system config for.

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