Frequent software updates, device incompatibility, and short upgrade cycles make systems expensive to maintain
Well done, smart home gouger companies: you’ve killed the goose and turned the promise of better homes into an expectation of random unwanted oversize future upgrade bills.
Well done, smart home gouger companies: you’ve killed the goose and turned the promise of better homes into an expectation of random unwanted oversize future upgrade bills.
Or, just build it with Home Assistant and compatible hardware.
Yes, use HA, an rPi or VM and roll your own smart home locally. You can do quite a lot, but you need to put in a little effort. Worth it.
Not satisfied with the responsiveness of HA on a pi. I used an old Intel NUC. Not as energy efficient, but everything is instantaneous. Good stuff.
My 7 year old Dell SFF idles at marginally higher power than my Pi zero W. I’ll take the trade off.