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You use Lutron for integrated system like Savant or Crestron .

Mailbox notifications with a vibrant sensor

This tech does sound great, if not for my low income and my learning curve. After I had strokes, leaning has been a challenge. One thing I wish I could set up is all 60 smart lights in my home to be able to set dimming specific to time of day. I too started my smart home journey seven years ago. I now have 112 smart home devices, one main router and four access points (19 rooms - 3 floors). I use a different smart home assistant which has limitations, but works for my needs. Being disabled, the two things I am glad to have is the ability to reset Alexa, Google Home, and all cameras via app or voice, and everything on battery backup. My first Mr. Coffee I installed a Sonoff Mini R2 inside, which lasted three years. Now I use TP-Link Kasa 6 outlet smart WiFi power strip. Favorite routine - "Alexa, good morning" turns on Mr. Coffee, turns off dining room light, turns off kitchen stove vent light, turns off porch light, raises the east kitchen blinds, turns on bed light, turns off foot warmer (heating pad under my pillowtop), sets thermostat to awake mode and tells me the weather for the day.

Paulus speaks a bit too fast, a bit sloppy. But the content is great!

Ive noticed almost all women absolutely love the frame TV, yet all men prefer quality and funtionality of a standard one. We have a frame 55" in living room and a 85" samsung neo in basement bonus room. My wife and daughter would rather watch that stupid frame all day instead of the gloriousness downstairs. Works out well for me.

Moving from Ring to Reolink was a gamechanger for me. Even without offloading to a NAS, the local storage has been more than enough. PoE or AC, LAN or WiFi, local storage (SD) or NAS, mobile and desktop applications. It took a little more time and tweaking to get it right, but but it's been great so far.

LOVE Home assistant! You can pretty much do anything your heart desires. I'm concerned though...and I'm sure others are too..how long will this last as open source; free? I'm worried this will change and break a lot of hearts...

That “I have no one to yell at” really hit different

What's the point of having these? Especially in a bathroom if you don't have automation set up. You get to control it from your phone and that's it... If you're not using voice control or another third party for animation / keypads as an electrician this seems like a waste. Are you using any third party devices inside the house for total control?

There is already a better version with inc display but color and 60hz refresh rate

The problem is that when a product relies on external infrastructure to operate, the cost of running that infrastructure has to be paid from somewhere. People don't get it but this is like buying a service with the camera thrown in like your ISP does when they throw in or charge you for the router. You can't possibly expect that for an one off $40 you will get the hardware, the software, the notifications, the cloud storage etc etc in perpetuity. Come on.

I need to find micro motion sensors for a box promotion ..when lid opens , lights go on ..any ideas??

Why not run home assist on just your NAS? Then be one less device free and your NAS could run it better.

google has destroyed the Nest products

HA is great but it’s nowhere near being “let my elderly mom buy it and use it”. Long long way away. They’re in rapid development still with nearly zero regression testing and it shows. The UI also doesn’t consistently follow a design document. It’ll be a while - assuming they get a higher level of discipline.

Sure as long as you are willing to pay…

I don't know anything about HA other than what you've presented over time but I do think, generally speaking, the "best" platform is usually not the one that wins. It's the best marketed platform and HA will need a major corporate backer to achieve mainstream adoption.

Hi, @SmartHomeSolver, have you solved the voice-to-command/text challenge?

I am rebuilding my Smart home as I just moved and I’m mainly trying to find matter devices so they can be brand diagnostic but as far as the connectivity method, I’m having trouble finding a lot of thread based devices and I’m worried about getting too many Wi-Fi devices has this been a problem for you having most of your devices connected via Wi-Fi?

i already had a linux system always-on in my basement so i run home assistant through docker on that. are those usb connectivity devices compatible with that setup? i have an ezlo 100 plugged into the wall to control my somfy zwave shades that i'm looking to replace since its connectivity is bad. was planning to find a smartthings hub that still has zwave support but since i plan to put it in home assistant anyway that might be simpler . . . though no mention of when that might be available. i'll see what i can find on the home assistant site.

Instead of turning on a random light to represent visitor mode. Use a virtual switch. I use Google Home and Smart Things together. Smart Things has the ability to make virtual switches, which is great for storing data like visitor mode on or off. 6:38

An AI box running locally? Great! How do we insure it stays local? Thanks for helping drag us FOGs into the next century!

The perfect interface is the one that fits the user. I would make difference UI choices, but I'm a different person!

Awesome, some great ideas here. Thanks for sharing!

bro when he said e-reader i thought of the gameboy advanced e-reader

If I could have an AI box in home, that could run my lights/music etc. without needing internet access it would be heaven. I'm not sure that is what is being suggested however.

Also, something else people may not know - these sensors can see through thin walls and doors. I use this to trigger a light inside a bedroom even if the door is closed and I’m outside the room walking up to it. If you want to test this, just remove the edges in the app that you may have set on the wall you’re looking to “see through.”

You can block Justin Bieber, but then your kids will have AI generate songs that sounds just like Justin and you would have no idea why it isn't working. :)

No I don't think HA is the future of smart homes. HA have done a lot to make it more user friendly, but they have miles to go before it actually gets user friendly. Rigght now HA is non beginners. HA's frequent updates breaks things all the time. The UI is not very user friendly either.

The day Home Assistant doesn't ever expect you to use yaml, I'll consider it for our family home. :( So much of the coolest stuff in HA is locked behind that and I cannot begin to imagine troubleshooting a yaml error for my folks. Likewise, the fast updates can also mean breaking changes, which is not cool for consumers. So, YAML and breaking changes are my biggest concerns atm. Until then, HA can't be "simplest / easiest to use" home automation platform.

Imagine having an smart home, then amazon decides to shut your lightbulbs. No thanks 🤢

im on habitat now I did it because it seemed easier and more stable than home assistant between updates. I want to change to HA for two reasons. Graphing data without a ton of hacks and setting up a separate SQL server. and I want to get Alexa out of my home. I want a locally ran voice assistant that can do intercom, announcements, make shopping lists, timers, of course can control smart home things but streaming music and telling me the weather is important to me. I can live without it answering questions but I would like that ability too. if a local voice assistant that did these thing well, worked with HA fairly easily, Id make the switch today.

I already have a PC with a 24GB video card. Hope I can leverage this to run my own AI assistant.

It’s not the door locks fault that you use that garage door

Any issues with the invovelli switches? How do they stack up to Lutron?

Sky net is self aware!

I've barley scratched the surface of HA, and I see so much potential. I'll have to work on making a nice dashboard.

What type of robot vacuum do you use?

Que 10 movies where the AI starts to become human like and has emotions and you upset it and it wont let you get in the fridge then it starts to send high frequency noises to disrupt your sleep... Then it starts to pretend to be you and gets everyone in your family to hate you so they leave because they want to get away from you... The AI locks you in the shower and turns the heat and steam feature up to 120 degrees... When you get out burned and exhausted it starts playing music you hate and starts to drive you crazy. Every door is locked you can't drive any of your cars. You get so exhausted you collapse in the living room and it sends the vacuum cleaner over and just repeatedly bludgeons your head until you bleed out. It makes a deep fake of you doing an un alive video saying you wanted to go out that way because you suck. The End. No AI will ever be local but it's a nice thought. If you have wifi and a connection so does anyone and anything else.

Hey Smart Home Solver I think that Amazon sounds better for us because It can drop in with specific intercoms and etc.!

I would really like to create automations in the same way as Homey. Just select a device and say what you want to do with it. So turn it on or off or give it a different colour. Now that's still sometimes tricky.

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I've been using home assistant for almost 3 years now and have seen it change a LOT. It is a lot easier to use and it's functionality has grown. I currently make my own sensors with MCU's and sensor modules along with ESPHome add-on for home assistant. I agree with you that this is the future of the smart home.

I had an issue if the power went off, when the power came back on, the door opened. Might kill the power and make sure.

The only AI I'll consider using is a local-only one. I like the idea of having a local, central AI that hooks into things like jellyfin to make suggestions or create playlists. I don't necessarily want that to be baked into jellyfin because I'd prefer to have a centralized "brain" that can be used by any media application or similar and not have one per-application that's tied to only that application. I'm excited for the improvements to the UI and dashboards. I've been using HA for probably 7 or 8 years and my dashboards are a hellscape of "unavailable" things that I can't be bothered to fix. It would be great if something would solve that for me without me having to spend a bunch of time on it. I feel like at some point I'll just give in and do a fresh install since I think a lot of my problems are very old problems.

Being able to offload the AI work to desktop graphics card would be the best solution for me. I'm already hosting it on my desktop box with anything LLM used to access it from other computers.

How do they fund this company, how they make money ?..

I have never used this before and I’m very basic in my home automation and “smart“ integration, but I can see how things like this would be beneficial for someone like me to “upgrade“ a smart home without having to go down the rabbit hole…or am I totally off on this? 🤔

Homebridge ftw

Honestly, I am not too worried about a 600 usd AI box. Especially if you have a larger home with more complex automations, it will be worth it. It only becomes expensive when you buy it unnecessarily for a 1 bedroom apartment without a garden to speak off.