ᐅ Which smart home system is best for our new build?

Created on: 24 Jul 2022 09:48
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Pacc666
Hello

we are currently building our new house.
We had the first appointment with the electrician, and for the smart home system, he recommended Free@home.

The electrician does not offer KNX.

What would you recommend? Should we go with Free@home or install a wireless smart home system ourselves later?
Tolentino2 Aug 2022 18:53
Really? I also have Vodafone, and I have never encountered a website being blocked.
I would not accept that either... If anyone is allowed to do that, it should be the government.
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Pacc666
2 Aug 2022 19:01
This has happened to me before, where the site was blocked.
I can access it using a VPN (currently, I only have the standard Vodafone router).

With the new router in the new build, I would like to configure the DNS server from Google directly to avoid these issues.

In our new build area, only Vodafone fiber optic internet will be available initially.
Araknis2 Aug 2022 19:20
I've never heard of Vodafone blocking anything either. Is parental control activated in the contract? What exactly are they blocking?

For DNS, I would rather use Cloudflare. You can look up Pi-hole online.
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Pacc666
2 Aug 2022 19:27
I don’t want to explicitly name the sites (but there is a good reason why they are blocked 🙂 ).

I found Pi-hole.
It’s definitely interesting. Are there any other tools like Pi-hole?
Araknis2 Aug 2022 19:46
Well then, with Cloudflare or other DNS services, your illegal movie streaming should work 🙂

Tools for what? There are tools for everything, but you should know what you want to do. Or at least have a problem you want to solve or know about.
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Pacc666
2 Aug 2022 20:06
Thank you.
I mean tips like Pi-hole (until now, I thought ad blockers were the only solution).

You just wouldn’t think of this if you didn’t know such things exist.

The cache remains unaffected by Pi-hole, right?
So things like cashback platforms, for example Shoop, still work.
They need to track that I’m shopping there.