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Nice! If I understand correctly this is fully local and doesn't depend on cloud stuff? After a few failures I don't want anything that relies on somebody's bugg

• nomel 5y ago
  It's all local unless you want to pay for the cloud service, which just gives you safe remote access to your local home assistant instance, and gives some services like a nice (cloud based) text to speech engine. Neither are required. You can happily open up DMZ and use whatever TTS engine, yourself.
  • boring_twenties 5y ago
    Do you have any suggestions for a local TTS engine to use with HA? I have HA up and running but have only used its web interface so far.
    • nomel 5y ago
      No, but I was looking at ha-rhvoice before I went with Nabu Casa (to support the devs). The readily available local TTS voices will, obviously, not sound as good.
• llamataboot 5y ago
  It also depends on what /you/ setup - eg, you can certainly control some things locally and some things only through the cloud if you are using the manufacturers hub, but most things you can also buy a zwave stick and/or a zigbee stick and connect to your devices directly. Some are a perpetual cat and mouse game though for the companies that simply must snoop your data as part of their biz model or have another reason to be terrified of you directly talking to their things. And like any smart thing you put in your house, some things you need to block at the DNS level if they are hardwired to phone home constantly. But yes, Home Assistant and choosing the right things makes it possible to keep everything internal for sure