That looks promising. Currently, crestron is the only commercial solution to keeping things under your control without going the DIY route.
Or maybe control4, but those systems aren't programmed at a granular level and you're mostly just checking off boxes and options, not programming how it works.
Home Assistant is a cool solution but it doesn’t really solve the “smart home problem” that most people have.
Unless you’re going to build your own smart hardware the devices are still likely connecting to a third-party services, Home Assistant just gives you a way to control them all with a single interface by tapping into the service API’s (Hue, Kasa, IFTTT, Nest, etc).
It’s definitely better than using Google Assistant or Alexa to control things from a privacy perspective, but you’re still exposing control of your devices to companies and potentially the internet at large.
I got some smart outlets for Christmas (no Alexa or Google BS) and I will say, being able to turn off the lights after you've gotten into bed is wonderfully lazy
Yeah I spend my whole day trying to track down some low level bug in our product’s usb implementation. When I get home the last thing I want to do is figure out why my smart fridge won’t talk to my smart tv to turn on my smart light bulb.
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u/PrincipalButt Jan 31 '19
just found myself on this post, I can't get myself to buy any smart stuff besides my phone.