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I generally call any IoT tool that depends on a third-party-service dumb, as nothing you have is smart, the smarts are at the vendor.
by Semaphor 5y ago
I generally call any IoT tool that depends on a third-party-service dumb, as nothing you have is smart, the smarts are at the vendor.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoHomeassistant has gone a long way to make stuff smart, and the maintenance windows are usually when you are at home, on your PC, doing the maintenance yoursef :)
- Semaphor 5y agoI use HA as well. But there are integrations that just wrap/connect a vendor API, which is a no-go for me. Maintenance window is the morning during coffee, before my wife wakes up :D
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoyeah.. it takes some googling, but a few devices (eg. sonoff plugs) can be flashed with tasmota, and some (mostly zigbee) can be used directly with a usb dongle and zigbee2mqtt, without any vendor-based cloud service (eg. tuya valves for radiators, ikea bulbs, sensors,...). But yeah, either way, you have to do research before you buy the device :)