Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Never in a million years would I buy always-online trash when I could just use Home Assistant and control my devices locally.

    • Windex007@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Also, ESPHome is crazy good. It’s honestly not that hard or experiensive to take a dumb device and splice in some non-cloud home assistant capacity w/ ESPHome