Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

I guess I should contribute to this as I've gone a bit crazy and need somewhere to document just what I'm doing to my new flat.

So this is still a work in progress but the plan is roughly:

Internet

• 10MB Sky Broadband via BT Openreach... there's no fiber or cable on our street, this is the best one can achieve with low latency
  
• 4g mobile internet via 3... this offers higher bandwidth but at higher latency and will be bonded as a peak use and failover to the Sky Broadband
  
  

Network / Wi-Fi

• Draytek Vigor 130 to terminate the ADSL
  
• Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to bond the two WANs together and be the ADSL PPPOE
  
• Ubiquiti ToughSwitch to be the LAN
  
• Ubiquiti Amplifi for the mesh Wi-Fi
  
• Raspberry Pi and Pi-Hole for local DNS scrubbing
  
  

Power / Storage / Computer

• Synology NAS for 22TB storage
  
• APC SMT1500i UPS for power redundancy
  
• Custom fanless low power PC for Plex server
  
  

IoT

• British Gas Hive for heating
  
• Philips Hue for every lightbulb in the flat, all white ambience
  
• Google Home, we have 2 x Home Hub (kitchen and bedroom) and 1 x Google Home in the living room
  
• Roomba robot vacuum cleaner
  
  

Entertainment

• ChromeCast Audio linked to stereo
  
• ChromeCast HD linked to TV panel
  
• Nvidia Shield for Plex client
  
  

Security

• ADT alarm system
  
• Nest doorbell (still to acquire)
  
• Remote control exterior door lock (still to acquire)
  
  

At present... we have:

• Voice control over all lights, heating, entertainment systems.
  
• Motion detectors for lights in the hall, bathroom and storage room.
  
• GPS controlled lighting and heating to prep the house before we get home.
  
• Scheduled floor cleaning when we leave the house, every other day.
  
  

Some of this is still to be wired up, and I'm just about to build a rack in the store room to hold all of this so that it becomes invisible.