Most smart devices are incredibly dumb. (mastodon.social)

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Most smart devices are incredibly dumb.

In this 8th moving vlog, I set up @homeassistant Yellow with a @Raspberry_Pi to solve some of my first world problems—but using *smart* automation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwyInX4KyM

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[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

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).

[-] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Then buy ZigBee devices and a Sonoff/ConBee ZigBee Gateway

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

That's what he did, but with a home assistant yellow as the gateway.

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