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Like many other commenters here say, however nice and increasingly better Home Assistant is, in effect you will manage 10, 20, 50+ devices that may receive upda
by poisonborz 2y ago
Like many other commenters here say, however nice and increasingly better Home Assistant is, in effect you will manage 10, 20, 50+ devices that may receive updates, live in your network - whether wifi or zigbee, all have their issues - interfere with each other or just plain break.
I love the possibilities, it's often calming and nice to show off, but like with all things personal infrastructure, I have an increasing nausea and regret, along with the sunken cost fallacy.
- CharlesW 2y agoEeek, is this a representative experience, HA users? I'm HA-curious, but I use HomeKit (with Homebridge) and rarely touch it between device additions/reconfigurations.
- ImaCake 2y agoHA isn't (usually) the problem, the smart devices are. Our LIFX bulbs work almost flawlessly, and the Ikea bulbs using zigbee (not the ikea hub) are yet to fail, but the small number of Tapo bulbs require an API authentication that expires eventually or whenever there is a blackout so they require me to re-enter the password. So the tapo bulbs are getting replaced with more Ikea bulbs and I won't be buying Tapo again.
- silversmith 2y agoI update my "smart home" stuff when I have the time to spare. Otherwise, things live their lives isolated form internet, with auto-updates disabled. Yes, there are exceptions, like non-local-control devices. But fingers crossed, those have not given me much grief yet.
- turtlebits 2y agoBeen running HA for a year or so and been rock solid. If anything, it's a buggy device that adds extra effort.
- eternityforest 2y agoI suspect that what's actually needed is containerized integrations, if we can't get a real standard protocol that everyone uses(Is Matter going to take over?). WebAssembly seems like it could be a reasonable possibility for making plugins that don't need constant maintenance.