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[–] Dashi 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How is home assistant these days? I love the smart home aspect but last time I checked a year or so ago you still needed to tinker with it a lot to keep it running. Love it or hate it but alexa integration w/ hue has just worked. Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I'm off work

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I'm off work.

That's where I'm at. I just buy whatever cheap product works reliably enough for the application, link it to an isolated IoT VLAN where it can't see anything but the internet, and then forget it exists on my network. It's mostly because I'm lazy, though, and don't want to give up the convenience of Google Home smart lighting shortcuts on my Pixel's lock screen.

[–] Dashi 2 points 5 days ago

Exactly, alexa/google or whoever is financially incentivized to make sure their product continues to work.

Bob at home labs and his integration are just passion projects. For which I respect, but I don't want to tinker with it when a new model of light comes out that breaks everything.

Just put everything on its own vlan and let it talk to other iot and the internet and that's it. Sure they are scalping some data but that's a price in willing to pay for the convenience