Smurftube in each corner and center of the ceiling of each room. As well as next to at least one outlet box on each wall.

Cat6E on the roof peaks and edges of the roof for cameras.

Neutral wires in all the light switch boxes.

I think it will impact, but i think one of the big things is how trustworthy is the AI? I’m all for AI in my home automation, but not if it’s just being used to hoover up my data and sell it to another company.

What system are you looking to integrate it with?

The other thing to keep in mind if you got to a locally hosted, locally controlled smart home is THE SPEED. Coming from Smart Things to Home Assistant I was blown away how when I opened the webpage or app, everything was ALREADY loaded, and when I clicked a button stuff INSTANTLY happened. Smart Things was, open app (wait 10-15 seconds while all the devices updated their status in the app, press a button to turn something on, wait 5-10 seconds for it to do the things. HA, open app, boom it’s up, press button and there is no perceptible delay.

I would second this. I am always a proponent of PoE cameras, but if you can get an RTSP IP camera that’s wifi then really all that’s changing is the physical layer and it’ll work like a Ethernet cameras. Then it’s just LAN traffic. Block if from hitting the internet in your VLAN/firewall rules and call it a day.

If you’re really strapped for cash you can hack the firmware on a few of the Wyze cams to get RTSP out of them, but MAKE SURE you block them as they will CONSTANLY phone home and make sure you block via MAC not IP as I’ve watched mine pull different IPs in an attempt to get around IP level WAN blocks.

In the early 2000’s it was pretty cool. Nowdays I’d skip.