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A community dedicated to talking about, discovering, flaunting and discussing consumer products that are made in Europe by European companies.
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- Consumer Products: anything that you and I, as regular people, can buy. We all love Gripen fighter jets, but they don't belong here.
- Made in Europe: Manufactured and readily available in the European Union, Ukraine, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, UK etc. The more local, niche, artisanal, environmentally friendly or socially responsible, the better.
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- Exceptions can be made to promote tech companies who can't (yet) build their products in Europe yet are fully European and privacy respecting (examples include FairPhone, Jolla, Polar etc.)
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Obviously home assistant for coordination.
For network hardware I think the best you can do is try to find a router with taiwanese manufacturing and components (microtik? a latvian router manufacturer)
For IoTs there’s the ZigBee standard and more recently the thread standard for radio communication between the devices and the server so read up on those.
it’s possible to find some stuff with nordic semionductor chips in them, (eve energy, eufy smart lock e30, DIY development kits) but mostly youre stuck with us and china based silicon. There are many european companies. Ikea, Shelly being the most famous ones.
I'd like to emphasise not using wifi for smart home. With wifi you have to block your devices from the internet, with zigbee there's no internet connection at all. Or even TCP/IP.
For core home network, I want modems, APs, switches etc made in EU. I don't trust anything outside of EU anymore.