<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>silasb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty much doing the exact same.&lt;p&gt;Home Assistant&lt;p&gt;Custom TX board to transmit to the Etekcity sockets&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Etekcity-Wireless-Electrical-Household-Appliances&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B00DQELHBS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Etekcity-Wireless-Electrical-Househol...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using Alexa to control those outlets via Home Assistant Emulated Hue component.  Then I have a couple groups defined in Home Assistant for my living room lights, so I can say &amp;quot;Alexa, turn off living room lights&amp;quot; and it&amp;#x27;ll turn off my three outlets.
I can also do &amp;quot;Alexa, turn off living room light one&amp;quot; to just turn off a particular light.
One thing that I&amp;#x27;ve noticed with Alexa and Home Assistant is that I have an outlet labeled &amp;quot;Xmas Light&amp;quot; and I can either say &amp;quot;Alexa, turn on Xmas Light&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Alexa, turn on Christmas tree light&amp;quot; and it seems to discern between the two.&lt;p&gt;Overall I love this combo and is working pretty dang good.&lt;p&gt;Next goal is to use PIR sensors so when I go to the basement it&amp;#x27;ll automatically turn on the basement lights.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redsummer</author><text>I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri&amp;#x2F;HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;home-assistant.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;home-assistant.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nfarina&amp;#x2F;homebridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nfarina&amp;#x2F;homebridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER314&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER314&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER002-4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER002-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call it simple to set up, but it was cheap - about £70 (not including Alexa device, which could even be the same pi - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;alexa&amp;#x2F;alexa-avs-sample-app&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Raspberry-Pi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;alexa&amp;#x2F;alexa-avs-sample-app&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Raspberry...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native</title><url>https://github.com/deepsyx/home-automation</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SEJeff</author><text>I literally clicked into the comments here to mention how awesome Home Assistant is at things exactly like this. Glad to see I am not the only happy user &amp;#x2F; occasional contributor!</text><parent_chain><item><author>redsummer</author><text>I managed to get bilingual voice activation (Alexa and Siri&amp;#x2F;HomeKit - maybe Google Home in future) working with Home Assistant, homebridge, pi-mote, raspberry pi 3 and four energenie sockets. (In the US I guess you could use etekcity sockets)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;home-assistant.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;home-assistant.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nfarina&amp;#x2F;homebridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nfarina&amp;#x2F;homebridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER314&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER314&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER002-4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;energenie4u.co.uk&amp;#x2F;catalogue&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;ENER002-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call it simple to set up, but it was cheap - about £70 (not including Alexa device, which could even be the same pi - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;alexa&amp;#x2F;alexa-avs-sample-app&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Raspberry-Pi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;alexa&amp;#x2F;alexa-avs-sample-app&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Raspberry...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native</title><url>https://github.com/deepsyx/home-automation</url></story>