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with this, hopefully we are one step closer to a consumer retail home assistant box that users can deploy locally without the cloud integration that every compa
by clairity 5y ago
with this, hopefully we are one step closer to a consumer retail home assistant box that users can deploy locally without the cloud integration that every company is in a frenzy to lock you in to.
- andylynch 5y agoHass.io already sells their blue box (https://www.home-assistant.io/blue https://www.home-assistant.io/blue) but an rpi works nicely too. The Lidl gateways and similar zigbee hubs aren’t really necessary in a hass.io setup once you plug in a (pretty cheap) USB zigbee stick.
- clairity 5y agothat’s also a good step forward, but with all due respect to hass, it’s not a consumer retail brand (yet?). ideally, we’d get a little box like an apple tv/airport express where you plug it in, it finds all the zigbee (and thread) devices in range, and then let’s you validate and configure those by walking around and pointing your phone/tablet camera at each one (hopefully validated via uwb/nfc rather than qr code).
- andylynch 5y agoI agree. With Thread I expect this to come to actual Apple TVs and the like in the next few years.