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Re:Blink has been acquired by Amazon by cmsimike on Friday December 22, 2017 @07:44PM (#15992132)
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.
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Re:Blink has been acquired by Amazon by jcims on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:22PM (#15992554)
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.

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Re:Blink has been acquired by Amazon by ReverseCold on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:54PM (#15992647)
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).

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Re:Blink has been acquired by Amazon by jcims on Saturday December 23, 2017 @12:59AM (#15993120)
Very cool, thank you. I had no idea there was a project named that.
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