Do you use home assistant? All my shit is in the cloud and now they’re slowly starting to take away features and putting them into subscriptions. Even google assistance don’t have continued conversation without paying extra since gemini. I’m reluctant to try home assistant since it seems complicated.
Home assistant has spent the last couple of years focused on improving usability to new users. A lot of it will self organise. What doesn’t can mostly be set up easily via nice gui fronts, and easy to follow menus.
It’s got an insane amount of functionality, which can be scary. However, you don’t have to touch a lot of that. You only need to play with the bits you want, and it will hold your hand for most of it.
Couldn’t do without it. I hope that it becomes so accessible that everyone can run it in the future, but it’s not hard to dip your toes in now. If you don’t have any dedicated HW you can run 24/7, you can get a cheap RPi. If you’re ok splurging a hundred, try something like a zimaboard.
The latter has the advantage of coming with an app store, which is docker wrapped in a click-to-play coat. I have a couple zimas but I use compose, so haven’t tried it, but it should be very friendly.
Yeah, I have iot devices that are on their own wifi. Lover the automation for the thermostat. I am degoogling, last one is my phone, going to try out graphanie. Doorbell is poe, next is a door lock.
I call it pop security. It’s people with no actual background just jerking each other off trying to make it seem like they all know more about the topic than they really do.
I know this trope is popular but it’s hardly true. I work in tech and have a fully wired / smart home, as do several others I know.
That being said, we are picky about which smart components we use.
Home assistant with all local devices. This meme is getting tired.
Do you use home assistant? All my shit is in the cloud and now they’re slowly starting to take away features and putting them into subscriptions. Even google assistance don’t have continued conversation without paying extra since gemini. I’m reluctant to try home assistant since it seems complicated.
Home assistant has spent the last couple of years focused on improving usability to new users. A lot of it will self organise. What doesn’t can mostly be set up easily via nice gui fronts, and easy to follow menus.
It’s got an insane amount of functionality, which can be scary. However, you don’t have to touch a lot of that. You only need to play with the bits you want, and it will hold your hand for most of it.
Couldn’t do without it. I hope that it becomes so accessible that everyone can run it in the future, but it’s not hard to dip your toes in now. If you don’t have any dedicated HW you can run 24/7, you can get a cheap RPi. If you’re ok splurging a hundred, try something like a zimaboard.
The latter has the advantage of coming with an app store, which is docker wrapped in a click-to-play coat. I have a couple zimas but I use compose, so haven’t tried it, but it should be very friendly.
Yes
Yeah, I have iot devices that are on their own wifi. Lover the automation for the thermostat. I am degoogling, last one is my phone, going to try out graphanie. Doorbell is poe, next is a door lock.
This meme is always spouted by paper engineers trying to fit in, meanwhile all the neckbeards can’t go a second without mentioning home assistant lol.
I call it pop security. It’s people with no actual background just jerking each other off trying to make it seem like they all know more about the topic than they really do.