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Do you know what Home Assistant even is?

• goodpoint 4y ago
  A home automation stack that alleges to be open source but can only deploy it the way they want.
  • zja 4y ago
    What does the deployment have to do with whether or not the project is open source?
    • 0des 4y ago
      Stop hitting yourself, you're mad that someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, in fact, does not know what theyre talking about. Just keep walking.
    • goodpoint 4y ago
      The fundamental principles of FOSS are around freedom to use, redistribute and modify code. Many different things can weaken the freedom to use and modify. For example, if somebody gives you only binaries, or obfuscated sources, or only minified javascript. Or projects with very difficult build process and no documentation, or unnecessarily complex deployment or too many functional dependencies. Or making the project not very modular, requiring people to deploy a whole VM or container with tenths or hundreds of dependencies bundled in. The list goes on and on. For example a lot of commercial "open-core" products deploy a lot of tricks to make forks difficult to maintain in the long term. Many are open source only strictly speaking aka legally, but they discourage REdistribution. Android is an extreme example of this and you can see how HA goes in that direction. EDIT: There's a company funding HA development and profiting from it using a subscription model...
      • zrail 4y ago
        How does any of that apply to Home Assistant?
        • moondev 4y ago
          Probably referring to the NixOS packaging issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277
  • function_seven 4y ago
    I’m running it on a VM on a secondhand Intel NUC. A lot of people use an RPi. Some people do a Docker install. https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/ https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/ I will support these allegations of open sourceness as well.