Adam Kadlec ⚡

Building my own smart home system (FastyBird)
Also working on Nextly
Flutter • IoT • backend

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

Silo's back Friday and I had to sit and genuinely think about where Season 2 even left off. Loved it, remembered almost none of it. That feeling — "I know I cared about this show" — is exactly what we built https://t.co/QzUfOviNOB for.

[Studio81 Labs @Studio81Labs]

We started Studio81 to build the opposite of most modern software — small tools that do one job well, then get out of your way. No feeds, no streaks, no noise.

Here's why 👇 https://t.co/Kvh51VrYRh

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

The goal isn’t to automate everything.
It’s to make everyday interactions feel effortless.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

Smart home systems keep adding more features.

But the real problem is usability.

If you don’t enjoy using it every day, it’s already broken.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

Designing something you actually want to use every day is harder than it looks.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

Working on the smart home panel UI.

Goal:
- fast
- no clutter
- actually usable on a wall display

Still a work in progress, but getting there 👇

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

This was one of those decisions that felt overengineered at first.

Until things started breaking 😄

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

One decision that saved me multiple times:

Making everything plugin-based.

In my smart home system:
- plugins can fail
- system keeps running

No hard dependencies.

More work upfront, way less pain later.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@pirosb3 Love this setup.

I’m also building a Raspberry Pi-based smart home panel and these small projects are way more addictive than expected 😄

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@jaiinn20 This is insane.

The fact that you can pull real data directly from satellites with such a simple setup is wild.

Raspberry Pi projects keep getting more impressive every year.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@rob_qd I ran into the same issue while building my own smart home system.

Most MQTT tools felt way too heavy for simple use cases.

Love the idea of keeping it minimal 👌

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

This took me way longer to figure out than I expected.

Real-world devices are messy.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

One thing I underestimated:

Smart home “real-time” is unreliable.

WebSockets drop.
Devices go offline.
States get out of sync.

So I built:
- WebSocket as primary
- HTTP fallback sync

Hybrid > pure real-time

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

Been working on this for quite some time now.
Finally decided to start sharing more publicly.

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

I’ve been quietly building my own smart home system from scratch.

Not just a dashboard.

A full ecosystem:
- backend
- admin UI
- wall panel app

Trying to keep it simple, fast, and actually usable.

More soon 👀

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@PetrHolec @DolphSegal @prezidentpavel @enkocz @petr_macinka @AndrejBabis A když deník N vytáhl bitcoin tak to sloužil komu? oh wait, ono se to mění podle potřeby

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@dozor1984 @P_Fiala @SpoluKoalice @ODScz v porovnání s rokem 1820?

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@lukasmeliche @RomanaBBBB bohužel, tohle dělal chatgpt a ten odmítá karikaturovost skutečnou osobu, asi sem měl použít lepší prompt

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@BehizyTweets now I know why americas are real dumb nation. In Europe we do not have a "free healthcare"

[Adam Kadlec ⚡ @KadlecAdam]

@DolphSegal nedivil bych se kdyby si byl retard