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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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Don't rely on Alexa to wake you up... (www.theverge.com)

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[–] dan@upvote.au 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There's way too much stuff that relies on internet access. If I'm at home, and my washing machine (which is also at home) wants to tell me when it's done, why does that need to use the internet?

I try to stick to Zigbee or Z-wave devices where possible, since they're guaranteed to be local-only. If I need access when I'm away from home, I connect with a VPN to access Home Assistant.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got a Zigbee power metering plug on our washing machine. Set up an automation for it to notify us when it's done. Just that sold my wife on HA, she's asking for other things like this now.

[–] kvadd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, the automation is when the power usage suddenly go way down, It is considered done?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

More or less.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Matter is also local---provisioning can be a PITA but once done I've been pretty happy with even the cheap Matter WiFi smart bulbs. Home Assistant supports them very well.

Cheap bulbs can be a little buggy, which usually means I need to power cycle some of them now and then.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 month ago

I mainly use smart switches rather than smart bulbs. Currently I'm using the Inovelli Blue switches which use Zigbee.