homeassistant

I recently started myself. Debugging in the real world is tedious for my wife sometimes, but it just needs some fine tuning. I still have a cloud doorbell, sadly, because that's what I had in the before times. Also I'd still like to find a good solution for multi room audio. All in all I am not at all disappointed with what is possible both on web and in the android app.

I was thinking of routing my own external access but decided to just let it run thru Nabu Casa to support their work with a subscription.

Welcome to HA :) freeing all of the devices from the cloud can be quite a rabbit hole, but at the same time it's very satisfying. If you're concerned about privacy or devices still phoning home you could consider installing pihole or disallowing specific wifi-connected devices to communicate on the internet via your router settings

great job, I didnt go the self install route.But used HASSOS. The best thing I have had with HA is setting up a broadlink socket, the app could not connect. Turns out HA has seen them an linked up, blocking the app

Well done!

I too love the fact that HASS is a common platform for everything.
It makes duct taping lots of different devices together into automation so much easier.