How is home assistant these days? I love the smart home aspect but last time I checked a year or so ago you still needed to tinker with it a lot to keep it running. Love it or hate it but alexa integration w/ hue has just worked. Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I’m off work
Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I’m off work.
That’s where I’m at. I just buy whatever cheap product works reliably enough for the application, link it to an isolated IoT VLAN where it can’t see anything but the internet, and then forget it exists on my network. It’s mostly because I’m lazy, though, and don’t want to give up the convenience of Google Home smart lighting shortcuts on my Pixel’s lock screen.
Exactly, alexa/google or whoever is financially incentivized to make sure their product continues to work.
Bob at home labs and his integration are just passion projects. For which I respect, but I don’t want to tinker with it when a new model of light comes out that breaks everything.
Just put everything on its own vlan and let it talk to other iot and the internet and that’s it. Sure they are scalping some data but that’s a price in willing to pay for the convenience
In the grand tradition of software development personal projects, I have spent literal years of my life and hundreds of dollars on equipment to save myself a few bucks a year on subscriptions, or a few minutes of doing something manually.
Real.
As a tech worker I do have smart stuff in my home, but it’s all self-hosted and under my complete control, with no dependency on cloud.
This. Exactly this. Home assistant all the way…
How is home assistant these days? I love the smart home aspect but last time I checked a year or so ago you still needed to tinker with it a lot to keep it running. Love it or hate it but alexa integration w/ hue has just worked. Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I’m off work
That’s where I’m at. I just buy whatever cheap product works reliably enough for the application, link it to an isolated IoT VLAN where it can’t see anything but the internet, and then forget it exists on my network. It’s mostly because I’m lazy, though, and don’t want to give up the convenience of Google Home smart lighting shortcuts on my Pixel’s lock screen.
Exactly, alexa/google or whoever is financially incentivized to make sure their product continues to work.
Bob at home labs and his integration are just passion projects. For which I respect, but I don’t want to tinker with it when a new model of light comes out that breaks everything.
Just put everything on its own vlan and let it talk to other iot and the internet and that’s it. Sure they are scalping some data but that’s a price in willing to pay for the convenience
HA is the start of the slippery self hosting slope though, be careful it’s addictive
In the grand tradition of software development personal projects, I have spent literal years of my life and hundreds of dollars on equipment to save myself a few bucks a year on subscriptions, or a few minutes of doing something manually.