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I'm never putting one of these in my home.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (32 children)

I will be the last person to not have a smart home. There will be a banner over the doorway: "Welcome to Stupid House".

There will be a small cover charge.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You can have a privacy-first smart home. I have. I run Home Assistant in a docker container. No external services/plugins. My smart doorbell streams to my local nvr. If my internet is down, everything keeps working. And it's not even that hard anymore. It's become a lot easier over the last 2-3 years. Still not for non-techie users, but a lot better.

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

Have any resources to get started with that? Been looking into security systems but don't fully trust nest/ring/simplisafe etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just start with a local Home Assistant on. Raspberry Pi and go from there: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

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