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Thank you for the sincere reply. I think it’s a lot of rules - you even allude to there being infinite - and while each might be easy to understand for an IT c

Thank you for the sincere reply. I think it’s a lot of rules - you even allude to there being infinite - and while each might be easy to understand for an IT crowd like HN, I think some of them might be hard to understand in the general population. A lot of them looks like the product of hard learned lessons too. So the sum of the whole thing doesn’t add up to simple.

kelnos 4y ago
> and while each might be easy to understand for an IT crowd like HN, I think some of them might be hard to understand in the general population. I think the parent addressed this, and I agree: if you are going to do this well, then you need to be comfortable tinkering with computers and networks. I've built a smart home setup based on openHAB. It's not perfect, and it does occasionally break (fortunately rarely, and usually because I decided to update or mess with something), but I have everything in the home behind one app, and everything works predictably and consistently.