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Home Assistant.
This is like an open source "hey Google"?
It's a program you host yourself that can connect to dozens (hundreds?) of different smart device interfaces. Instead of having different apps to control you smart lights, plugs, switches, vacuums, etc., you can connect everything thru Home Assistant and make completely different devices work together.
I wish HA was reliable. Every time I get motivated to set something up it inevitably stops working eventually.
I think this is mostly down to hardware vendors wanting to keep you in their walled garden and breaking APIs as well as the overly convoluted steps you have to go though to get stuff working (hello Google). But it still kills any enthusiasm I have for it.
Yeah this is an issue not exclusive to Home Assistant unfortunately. I've been dabbling in home automation for years, and every single piece of equipment I have every purchased has at least once gotten flaky or straight up died for absolutely no reason. It's just part of life with home automation it seems like.
Yep same here, it saddens me because my house could be rocking some awesome stuff if it all just worked.
Well, don't use devices from waited garden ecosystems. My Home Assistant is up and running for years without any issues.
If it were that easy (and cheap) to get devices that are completely open without the need to manually flash every single one then I already would.