Is there a curated list of recommended IoT devices?
Pretty much what the title says. I want some ideas on what smart home devices are good and play nicely with the Home assistant. I know Tuya for example are more or less fine, Shelly are good but overpriced, in my opinion. I am also using Hue, which works great but costs a lot.
I am planning to revamp my whole IoT setup and Home Assistant and migrate from Docker running on top of RPi to a VM setup. I have a Sonoff ZigBee gateway and plan to try to add all devices to it.
https://zigbee.blakadder.com/
You can also filter by zha, MQTT etc.
I have a combination of sonoff, ikea, lidl, and a few tuya. Be careful with tuya versions, I’ve bought hardware that wasn’t compatible but looked like it was
Yes, they are just white labeling the devices
Would be real nice if the blackadder list somehow flagged devices that are no longer available.
They do but due to the lack of good labeling it's hard to tell which one you're getting in stores. A very large portion of stuff produced after mid-2022 doesn't work - at least with Tasmota - and their website does note that
This is probably the best list out there...specific recommendations in a category usually requires some googling, though.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/
Anything that will run ESPHome or Tasmota is a safe bet. The ESPHome website has a list of supported devices here, and there is a Tasmota devices repository on the Blakadder website similar to the Zigbee one.
I used to love the Blakadder site but now I'm mostly finding "this device will only work if you have an older version" as the newer chips roll out which don't support Tasmota. I've been looking at OpenBeken as an alternative but the documentation and process for that one seems much more confusing to be.
I'm hoping that sometime we might see a consolation of projects so that we can get Tasmota support on e.g. CB2S etc services
For zigbee there’s a list of what works with what integration - other than that I usually google the device I’m eyeing and see what issues ppl are having
This. I use zigbee2mqtt and there's a lot of resources about what devices are supported.
I am more interested in devices that are generic, not having any brand bloat on them
No idea what you mean with that statement.
For example tuya is an example of white label brand and other companies are buying their products in bulk and doing OEM with some shitty software on top of it and charging a premium.
5€ for a tuya switch, 7€ for a double button, 15€ for a din switch (talking about WiFi), local tuya is available: they beat all competitors imo