Reading articles like that make me very happy I'm in the self-hosted Home Assistant ecosystem. I couldn't imagine _someone else_ deciding two things that used to work together no longer do for me.

Is there a good watering hole for self-hosted home assistant development? I was at a Micro Center this evening and saw a AIY Google Voice Kit (not sure if it phones home) and a Matrix Creator (very interesting) plus a lot of other doodads that one could use to build same.

I just don't want to spend a year trying to cobble together my own software.

How to use home assistant: 1. buy any compatible smart thing listed as compatible on the home assistant website 2. Buy a raspberry pi and any necessary RF adapters. 3. Install home assistant on the raspberry pi and edit the config.yaml file to work with your devices.

It was much easier than I expected, and works with more DIY things as well (like 315/433Mhz RF Sockets).

Very cool, thank you. I had no idea there was a project named that.

This is such BS. "If you own one of our systems, nothing changes for now." They've completely disabled the RBoy integration that allows SmartThings access to work for Blink Cameras, it's already been done. There's a huge uproar over at the SmartThings forum about it.

Glad you're making that sweet acquisition cash Blink founders but you really screwed over your users.

Would be too strange a coincidence if not, and with the increasing level of device support on Echos will be interesting to see whether they stop supporting Smartthings hubs there as well.

Amazon is horrible about things like this. They purchased Twitch and then removed the Twitch app from the Roku. They are very anti competitive.

That was over 3 years after they purchased Twitch. Brightscript and the Roku SDK aren't easy to work with.