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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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Chamberlain shuts off access to MyQ’s APIs, breaking smart home integrations (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

More cost upfront, but as we've seen time and time against companies will start charging subscriptions for thing they previously didn't.

Then there'd the privacy benefits. Not needing to rely on some company to keep servers alive. Being able to more easily troubleshoot/upgrade/swap individual parts. Not having to use a different app for basically every single device. All that sort of stuff