Home Lighting on Self-Hosted Kubernetes

In my apartment I control my lights using Zigbee2MQTT, Mosquitto (MQTT), and openHAB all running on Kubernetes. Here’s the how and why for this over-engineered nonsense. But why? You could probably get similar features with various smart home hubs. Philosophically, I am opposed to my lights relying on services outside of my control. My goals are: Everything can run locally and if the internet is down. No hard dependencies on third party services....

October 9, 2022