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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Z-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I read that and their website and still don't know what it is? It's neither hardware nor a protocol?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Mostly its really fucking expensive. Usual applications are central control of heating and window blinds in large office buildings.

Part of what drives the price is that ideally it's all hard wired.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm still confused as to what the product is, that just sounds like commercial Home Assistant. What is hardwired? Some knx device similar to a Shelly?

[–] turmacar 1 points 2 days ago

Maybe commercial MQTT? From the wiki it seems like mostly an intermediary protocol to get disparate things working on the same system. Their site is pure marketing garbage for explaining anything about it though.

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