So for the sake of @joss missing are previous comments I think we need to go back a step and at explain what were doing/done.
My automnous (iI like that) home is able to open/close bilnds, switches some but not all lights, controls the heating, room temperaturs and monitors voltage/surges coming into the home and breaks power on certain circuits if needed. I also control the “sensory” room. My tab is hanging of wall awaiting a new home because of sound proofing living room and kitchen. I think Rico has far more of his home automated.
I have a 10″ android tablet located in the wall as a main control centre and displays everything at a glance and is operated from our smartphones on a daily basis.
Alot of mine is based around Arduino hardware and I mainy use C++ as I’m qualified to associate level programming. I use Python where its called for. It is easier to get to know and understand and is based on C++ . Most of what I do are Hypercubes large govee style amps anything LED, as I touched on a few months back with you, if you remember @joss Ialso build PC’s Intel or AMD Ryzen based and put prety lights in clearor opaque cases as you do I believe. I upload alot of programs to github whether basic or more in depth for others to use or modify. Aruino IDE needs dowloading onto the board dependending what your programming with.
Alot of my programming is done on my win 10 laptop or on lynux desktop and uploaded to my HP Ptoliant in loft.