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The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (15 children)

To become mainstream the install process for a fully featured setup needs massive work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

In what way? It's dirt simple to get started.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (9 children)

For you maybe. You think your grandma could set up home assistant?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You think my grandma fucks with Google Home or Apple Homekit?

Not everyone is up to the task anyway.

I've recently switched to the VM instead of the docker, the setup is so easy if you fail at that you shouldn't be doing anything with it to begin with.

You can buy pre-installed devices which are essentially plug-and-play

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a rhetorical question, you're missing the entire rhetoric of it...

Which is that not everyone is technically inclined, actually most aren't, so the majority of everyone is not going to be capable of operating a technically demanding system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do understand what you're saying, but not everyone will or should self host.

I don't know when you've tried the setup, but it's gotten to a point where i do find it very easy.

If you go the way with a pre built device too, all you have to do is creating an account and plenty device pop up immediately without any further steps.

The new step by step automation creation was all which was left to improve.

If you fail at that, you probably fail at other solutions too

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