Comment on Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The Home Assistant community has a good reputation of routing around that kind of bullshit. There’s enough users that I predict a homegrown module will pop up in the next few months.
I love my Ratgdo garage door unit, routing around the bullshit proprietary LiftMaster APIs that want to download some stupid phone app. No, fuck you. I hard-wire that shit and get an API that works like a dream.
Sometimes, trying to integrate smart home devices can be a pain, but the Home Assistant core makes the integration much much easier. Please don’t like shit like this to detract from a future smart home project for your house. I would encourage you to just start it, if you’re wanting to get into it and willing to learn some things.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Why do you need your house connected to the internet at all? Honest question; I’m kind of not understanding the hype around connecting everything in life to the internet.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s not really “your house connect to the Internet” as much as just connecting it together to a central hub. My lights dim and turn off at set times of the day using scenes, including a more dynamic sunrise/sunset time. If it’s stormy weather during the day, the front porch light comes on. I have a few colored lights that change colors with the seasons. Home Assistant brings down the garage door at night, if I forget. If the garage sensor is tripped, the garage light comes on. I have dumber motion sensors for locations where it makes sense, like pantries or closets.
I can control all of my interfaces from my phone. It can hook into local cameras, so that everything is centralized. HA can hook into any of the voice assistant systems, like Alexa. There are so many little conditions and automated switches I could create, based on either outside stimuli (like the weather) or internal sensors.