> When I started to read through the non-cloud option, I saw some analog telephone and POTS modem requirements and my eyes glazed over. Confused on that one.

> When I started to read through the non-cloud option, I saw some analog telephone and POTS modem requirements and my eyes glazed over. Confused on that one. You can expose Home Assistant to the internet (preferably using a reverse proxy like Traefik or Nginx, which is basically what your $6 gets you anyway) to make Google Assistant work properly with it.