I’m kind of surprised that all of the top comments on this are some variation of, “it would be easier to just use Home Assistant”. I would understand that react

I’m kind of surprised that all of the top comments on this are some variation of, “it would be easier to just use Home Assistant”. I would understand that reaction on a site called “Sensible Smart Home Consumer News”, but hackers build software and you’d expect Hacker News to have some respect for that. I’m not saying writing your own software is always the most cost and time effective solution, and I would push back against it in a work setting if it was inappropriate, but from a hacker ethos perspective, writing your own smart home software for your own house is cool and deserving of respect rather than denigration.