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hleszek | 5 months ago

Home Assistant is making more and more sense to make your own fully local and private home automation system.

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johnmaguire|5 months ago

Absolutely. I've been using Home Assistant for around 6 years now and it's absolutely amazing for tying hardware from varying ecosystems together.

Even if your hardware doesn't support local APIs, there's a good chance someone has made an HA integration to talk to their cloud API.

borski|5 months ago

> Even if your hardware doesn't support local APIs, there's a good chance someone has made an HA integration to talk to their cloud API.

And if they haven’t, you can pretty trivially write your own and distribute it through HACS (I’ve got three integrations in HACS and one in mainline now)

xp84|5 months ago

I love it! But my setup has a lot of sharp edges. It's a combo of things where the "standards compatible" way to connect to HA lacks things like camera control, by dastardly vendors like Chamberlain who basically killed HA support for spite, and finally, by having to use Google or Amazon for voice assistants.

My #1 wish would be for someone to build a HA-native voice assistant speaker. I'd pay $100 each for a smart speaker of the physical quality of the $30 Google Home Mini but which integrated directly with HA and used a modern LLM to decide what the user's intent was, instead of the Google Assistant or Siri nonsense which is like playing a text adventure whose preferred syntax changes hourly. I'd pay that plus a monthly fee to have that exist and just work.

projektfu|5 months ago

Chamberlain can't change MyQ to get around the fact that HA can operate the switch in your garage with a simple controller attached to it. It is very annoying that they are anti-hacker though.