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this is fantastic, I'm really excited. I do have a follow up on non-hardware integrations though. I know when I download anything on my phone, it's sharing all sorts of crap. Does HA allow integrations to do that? Going back to spotify example, I understand spotify can obviously track things on their end (what song they're giving me etc), but integrations don't let them see humidity in my basement right?
If the integration has a cloud symbol you should assume it's sharing data. There is an unofficial integration "store" called HACS. Those integrations are not reviewed by Home Assistant so you cannot be sure even if it is marked as not being a cloud integration, unless you review the code it may do things you are unaware of. That said, many HACS integrations are worth considering.
Clear answer, thank you so much. Glad to hear there's a community. Worst case scenario I can always make it so a self-hosted voice to text triggers a script on a local device through a spotify API.
By syncing data, it isn't all data, just that it requires non-local resources, ie cloud/API, to function. You do have to look at each integration to see what it is doing, I would expect a Spotify integration is just hitting the Spotify API and maybe can interact with local devices that Spotify can stream to (ie a Chromecast)
And it's explicitly "not all data"? I'm really impressed by the community, I'd assume if a Philips lightbulb was getting access to geolocation data via HA someone would have noticed.
If Phillips wrote the plugin it might but all the plugins I have looked at are written by the community. Most plugins are only polling based, so they are scraping data into HAs recorder plugin.
thanks, the fact that there's this level of insight in the community makes me comfortable of going down this road. I'll keep an eye on integrations.