Thank you for your reply! I’ll definitely explore the Pi5 as a central device that is quite powerful.Staying with Pi
A Pi5 for your central device, it'll last for a long time and you'll be able to use it ...
You'll then want external device, RP based, ESP based, Bought and custom mode devices etc... to report to this, since you want voice, I can highly recommend you go have a good look at HomeAssistant and scan though the last two years of blogs
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/
I currently use a Pi4 4GB and it is doing fine, but the Pi5 is better faster etc and pretty much the same price.
The 4GB helps a lot with updating all my external sensors and devices (it compiles them and then flashes them), 2GB would now be a bit to low.
It all depends how you intend to go about it.
I’ll also check out blog posts you suggested looks like it could really help streamline the integration of sensors and voice commands.
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