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Agreed. At the same time any home automation needs to be able to be cloud and vendor independent. It begins with registering the property an independent email

by j45 3y ago

Agreed. At the same time any home automation needs to be able to be cloud and vendor independent. It begins with registering the property an independent email address for any accounts used during setups before taking them offline. Easy to manage for future tenant or sale. Gear is more able to be cloud independent or be made cloud independent, leaving a greater chance to leave at most a local wifi network and local appliance with touch screen (pi) that can peacefully operate without the internet, plugged in and hung on a wall like any other appliance in a mechanical room of the home. The more off the shelf parts can be, the greater the chance of it surviving.

jakupovic 3y ago
You have a wishlist not something that you can buy. What's available now is a mix of random open and closed source hardware and software that requires a lot of time and HA to tie it all together
- j45 3y ago
  I don’t disagree. With each iteration and replacement I’m discovering there’s more out there. For example instead of using a random computer or pi, installing a home assistant yellow presents to a future home owner as more of an appliance. https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/ https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/ This is a nice gateway for non technical but “I can find someone to help me with this system”. Same goes for particular groups of hardware. You’re night it’s a mix but the fact you can run most things on one platform fairly easily is pretty useful.
  - jakupovic 3y ago
    For myself HA has been the best thing since, like, forever. I personally love it, if not obvious. The hardware part is still complicated because of this pull-down stuff and just a mix of randomness as everyone is developing all kinds of things to do "stuff". HA ties it together enough to be useful and more. Just this morning I was thinking it's really cool I can try to correlate my waking with CO2/humidity levels and what happens when the furnace runs? For the curious, having furnace run helps everything

by j45 3y ago

jakupovic 3y ago

You have a wishlist not something that you can buy. What's available now is a mix of random open and closed source hardware and software that requires a lot of time and HA to tie it all together

j45 3y ago
I don’t disagree. With each iteration and replacement I’m discovering there’s more out there. For example instead of using a random computer or pi, installing a home assistant yellow presents to a future home owner as more of an appliance. https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/ https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/ This is a nice gateway for non technical but “I can find someone to help me with this system”. Same goes for particular groups of hardware. You’re night it’s a mix but the fact you can run most things on one platform fairly easily is pretty useful.
- jakupovic 3y ago
  For myself HA has been the best thing since, like, forever. I personally love it, if not obvious. The hardware part is still complicated because of this pull-down stuff and just a mix of randomness as everyone is developing all kinds of things to do "stuff". HA ties it together enough to be useful and more. Just this morning I was thinking it's really cool I can try to correlate my waking with CO2/humidity levels and what happens when the furnace runs? For the curious, having furnace run helps everything