Tech Doctor is first and foremost a team of technology obsessed geeks. The recent explosion of accessible, affordable and customisable smart home solutions has naturally ignited a passion in all of us and we have to admit that we have become a little obsessed with smart home solutions. We automate and ‘smartify’ anything we can get our hands on.

We recently decided to share this joy and the plethora of fantastic solutions that we have discovered and carefully curated over the last few years with our customers. Tech Doctor has built a dedicated division to help build integrated, bespoke smart home solutions and automations. Gone are the days where automation and smart home solutions are reserved for those with 6 or 7 figure budgets. Our range of solutions is modular, fully customisable and truly budget friendly.

Our solutions are all user-friendly and fully modular; intended to delight and make life just that little bit easier and more convenient.
 

Home Assistant

Home Assistant is an open-source smart home platform that brings together control of all your devices, automations, and routines into a single, user-friendly dashboard. Designed with privacy, flexibility, and powerful customisation in mind, it allows us to seamlessly integrate products from different brands, enabling tailored automations that fit each customer’s unique needs. By using Home Assistant, we deliver smarter, more secure, and cost-effective solutions that put you in charge of your home environment, whether you want voice commands, scheduled routines, or advanced automations.
 

Set up and Support

Home Assistant Server – Set up and Configuration

Tech Doctor offers full-service Home Assistant deployment, making it simple for you to get started on your smart home journey. We supply dedicated Home Assistant servers with reliable hardware—ranging from Raspberry Pi, mini PCs, or NUC devices—sized to meet your needs and budget. Our experts handle the initial setup, device pairing, integration, custom dashboards, and automation workflows, ensuring everything works seamlessly from day one.
 

Ongoing Support

Support doesn’t stop after installation. We provide ad-hoc troubleshooting for your Home Assistant setup and offer ongoing monthly support contracts to maintain, optimise, and expand your smart home environment. This ensures your home automation grows with your needs, and help is always on hand when new devices or ideas arise.
 

Smart Ideas

Here are just a few generic ideas to get your creative juices flowing. We can integrate and build smart controls and automation to meet even your most strange request. These solutions are always personal and built specifically to help you solve problems and make your life easier.

• Lighting
  • Make existing light switches smart
  • Installation of smart light switches
• Power Monitoring
  • Power monitoring per device or per circuit
  • Monitor inverter/solar power usage
  • Monitor Energy Usage
  • Monitor whole house power and energy usage
• Device Power
  • Toggle power on individual or grouped devices or plugs
• Load Shedding Awareness
  • Alerts around schedules
  • Monitoring actual grid power status
• Presence and Motion Detection
  • Track location of people in the home
  • Monitor for motion in specific spaces
• Doors and Gates
  • Control gates and garage doors
  • Monitor door/gate status
• Alarm Systems
  • Paradox and DSC alarm systems can be fully integrated
  • Monitoring per zone
  • Arm and Disarm alarm and control zones
  • Other brands can have status monitored and sometimes basic controls
• JOJO Tank Level
  • Monitor water levels in JOJO tanks
• Gas Tank Level
  • Monitor gas levels in gas cylinders
• Apple HomeKit Integration
  • Anything you have available in Home Assistant can also be integrated into Apple HomeKit and controlled natively on your Apple devices
• Aircons
  • Some new Aircons can be integrated natively
  • Retrofit solutions to monitor and control older Aircons
• Geysers
  • Monitor water temperature in geysers
  • Control geyser element manually or with automation
• Swimming Pools
  • Monitor pool temperature
  • Control pool pumps and heat pumps manually or with automation
  • Monitor pool chemicals (PH and Chlorine)
• Cameras
  • Camera feeds can be added to dashboards
  • Frigate can be installed to add AI detection and automation to camera systems
• Inverter and Solar Monitoring and Optimisation
  • Monitor, control and automate inverter, battery and solar settings
• Backup Water Systems
  • Installation of smart backup water supply pumps that allow pump controls and water consumption monitoring
• Car Tracking
  • Cost effective solution for vehicle tracking

Automations

Here are just a few generic ideas to get your creative juices flowing. We can integrate and build smart controls and automation to meet even your most strange request. These solutions are always personal and built specifically to help you solve problems and make your life easier.

• Alarm Automations
  • Turn On/Off lights depending on alarm state
  • Reminder to turn on alarm when everyone leaves the house
• Light Automations
  • Group Lights
  • Toggle based on presence, movement or time
• Fan Automation
  • Toggle state based on humidity, time or temperature
• Aircon and Purifiers
  • Automate to react based on presence, temperature or air quality
• Power and Device Monitoring
  • Automate devices turning on and off
  • Alerts or warning based on power usage, load shedding, etc
• Gates and Garage Doors
  • Alerts when doors and gates are left open or open/close
  • Lights on/off based on gate/door status
• Tank Level Warnings
  • Alerts when JOJO or Gas tank level drops
• Geysers
  • Automate geyser element timing based on time or temperature
• Solar/Inverter
  • Automate optimal use of batteries and solar
  • Alerts on battery level, solar status, usage, etc
  • Turn on devices when excess solar is available
  • Forecast PV generation

Smart Device Brands

A few of the smart home devices we work on most frequently:.

• Shelly
• Sonoff
• Geyserwise
• DAB Pumps
• Denon
• EcoVacs
• ESPHome
• Meross
• PoolSense
• Sensibo
• Paradox, DSC, Ajax Alarm Systems
• Aqara
• Alexa and Amazon Echo Devices
• Google Home
• Apple HomeKit and HomePod Devices
• Zigbee, Matter, Thread, Bluetooth, MQTT and WiFi devices

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