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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months ago

Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months ago

Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse

Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse

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Never in a million years would I buy always-online trash when I could just use Home Assistant and control my devices locally.
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  Also, ESPHome is crazy good. It’s honestly not that hard or experiensive to take a dumb device and splice in some non-cloud home assistant capacity w/ ESPHome

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