https://rudyk.me/tags/home-security/ Recent content in Home-Security on Andriy Rudyk Hugo en <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'>CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rudyk.me/posts/building-home-server/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rudyk.me/posts/building-home-server/ A few months ago my Abode subscription renewal came up. I looked at the annual charge and asked a simple question: what am I actually paying for here? The answer was a SaaS solution I couldn&rsquo;t expand. All the sensors were Z-Wave (an open standard), but the hub itself was a black box. Abode supported Z-Wave devices, sure. But the way they interacted was locked down. Want to add a geiger counter and log the values?