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Most smart devices are incredibly dumb.
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Ikr? Seems like a good thing to me. I want dumb devices controlled by a smart system.
The video is about smart devices that are poorly designed and/or rely on cloud infrastructure being dumb. Jeff also wants smart devices that will literally only talk to home assistant, and will still work fine if home assistant is offline (like a light switch will still work if the server is down).
Then buy ZigBee devices and a Sonoff/ConBee ZigBee Gateway
That's what he did, but with a home assistant yellow as the gateway.
Exactly this.
My temperature sensors don't need to phone home or even communicate two ways. They just need to squawk the temperature into the ether.