Control Freaks is Australia's first Home Assistant installer targeting agriculture. The same platform that automates your home can monitor your soil, control your irrigation, track your water tanks, secure your sheds and alert you to fire danger. All from a single dashboard, accessible from anywhere.
Soil Moisture & Temperature Monitoring
Wireless Tuya and Zigbee sensors placed directly in your soil report real-time moisture and temperature readings to your Home Assistant dashboard. Know exactly when your crops need water, not when a timer says they do. Set alerts for dry conditions, track trends over weeks and automate irrigation decisions based on actual data.
Automated Irrigation
Connect smart irrigation valves directly to Home Assistant and build watering schedules that respond to what your sensors are telling you. If the soil is already wet, it skips. If a dry spell hits, it increases. Cross-reference with your weather station forecast and your water tank levels for fully autonomous irrigation that uses less water and grows better crops.
Weather Station Integration
A personal Wi-Fi weather station on your property feeds live local data into your automations. Wind speed, UV index, rainfall, humidity, temperature, barometric pressure. Not a BOM estimate from 20km away. Your actual conditions, on your land, updating in real time. Set frost alerts, heat warnings, high wind shutdowns for irrigation, and automate shade covers or greenhouse vents.
Water Tank & Dam Level Monitoring
Ultrasonic level sensors in your water tanks and dams report fill levels to your dashboard in real time. Set alerts for low levels, track consumption patterns, and factor tank capacity into your irrigation automation. Know before you run dry, not after.
Shed & Barn Security
The same Reolink camera systems we install in homes work on rural properties. Monitor sheds, barns, gates, driveways and paddock entries. AI detection distinguishes people, vehicles and animals. Get alerts on your phone when something enters a zone. All footage recorded locally to an NVR on your property.
Solar & Power Monitoring
Rural properties often run significant solar systems. We integrate your inverter, battery, grid connection and individual circuit loads into a single dashboard. See what your solar is generating, what the house is using, what the pump is drawing, and where the money is going. Automate heavy loads to run during peak solar production.
RFS Fire Danger Integration
Home Assistant pulls live fire danger ratings and active fire alerts from the NSW Rural Fire Service directly into your dashboard. Set automations that trigger when fire danger reaches a threshold. Close windows, activate sprinklers, send alerts to all household members, cast a fire map to every screen in the house. This is not theoretical. It is already running on existing Control Freaks installations.
Remote Property Access
Manage everything from anywhere. Your Home Assistant dashboard is accessible remotely via a secure connection. Check camera feeds, sensor readings, tank levels and automation status from your phone whether you are in town, interstate or overseas. Get push alerts for any event that matters.