J-Fall 2022: Andre Groeneveld – Automate your home by building your own Zigbee bridge

With the huge advancements in technology over the last few decades, automating things around the house has become not only possible, but these days also easy. We have thousands of different devices to choose from, but installing them becomes more of a nuisance, as each company has their own app and bridge that you need to place somewhere in your house. Join this talk as I’ll share my journey in setting up a Zigbee bridge in my house, using a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Conbee 2 that will cater for different Zigbee enabled smart devices like Phillips hue and Ikea smart lighting. This session is not only for people familiar with home automation, but also for those who want to start automating things around the house, but do not know where to start. After this session you’ll be able to setup your own home automation system or make your existing system more private and remove the excess bridging devices in your home.