Internet Of Things / IoT / Connected Home / Smart Houses

Why Hive over nest, seeing as all you have google homes, surely nest plays better with those?

The prior owners had Hive and a lot of stuff was still installed. Seemed silly to replace an already working system.

Fair enough, don't think there is much difference in functionality anyway, and the whole point is that that you don't need to control them, so link to google homes less important I guess.

Any reason not to just use the chromecast for plex client over the nvidia? I personally ditched chromecast for plex client as it doesn't have a standalone remote, currently using a amazon fire to do the job

I want my Plex client to be using the cabled network, I dare to stream 4K movies and FLAC files.

I have all my chromecasts hardwired using adapters, sure it is still not as quick as proper hard wiring, but better than wifi.

I was going to ask you about smart switches (like den) over smart bulbs but if you are avoid start ups I guess that rules them out...

Zigbee is reliable, smart switches not so much. I also have a good awareness of the security landscape of a lot of these things and I simply do not trust small company new entrants into this.

Yes i'm waiting on reliable smart switches, bulbs don't work for me, I have ceiling spots everywhere so would cost a fortune. I want smart switches which change the physical state when they are changed via smart, so Den looks the part, but no way am I investing the £4k that it will cost to switch over until they have been used in the wild for a while...