Do you have the lawn mower robot, vacuum cleaner robot, and the rest of the appliances? Or do you still have to buy them? I'd love to see some pics, and learn more.
Home automation is light years away from us here in our country, compared to others. It's not that common at all, and I've been quite fascinated by everything related since forever, lol. It will be a few years before fully automating a house is not 100% cost prohibitive here
It's still quite upcoming here too, mostly some nerds (like me) starting to do it. but with the loxone system it's quite simple. the community has managed to integrate most of the things. by hacking the protocols that most of the appliences have available these days and integrate them directly into the Loxone system is very simple.
Roomba Irobot vacuum cleaner - there's a roowifi module available
Gardena / Husqvarna lawn mower - there's a Roboconect module available
Miele houshold appliances - by hacking the miele@home API system
Sureflap Connect cat door - by hacking the Sureflap API system (some data available on github)
Heater - by Hacking the Luxtronic API system
Liebherr fridge - By hacking the Liebherr smartconnect box API system.
Gardena garden watering valves- by just controlling the valves directly through relay output on the PLC relay module.
All the other things (lighting, temperature controlling, heating, cooling, motion sensing, weather station, alarm, entrance, surveillance, etc..) is already available as fully integrated Hardware by Loxone itself. the company that makes the PLC for house automation.
Some things are very well documented, some things i need to figure out by myself. not sure if i'm able to integrate everything as smart as i want too but i think most of it should somehow be possible.
Most appliances these days have some kind of add-on wifi PCB where you can check the status by a specific app (for example miele app for miele devices). If you manage to hack the Wifi-communication between the App (hub) and the device, you simply can include it in the smart home automation to read out parameters (like fridge temperature) and send commands (like start vacuum cleaning now). If you're able to recceive and send data (aka communicate with the device) you can integrate it in the automation program.
For example the lawn mower starts automatically when it's not raining, when the terrace door is not open, it hasn't run for at least three days, it's not in winter mode (aka snow) and the house is not set to "party mode" (aka guests with probably kids and animals on site) etc.. so many possibilities. and lot of useless but fun nerdery as well - i admit. I don't think there's ever the need to control the fridge temperature by your mobile phone app, but yeah - it's cool nevertheless
