Re:My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
by bmicraft on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:33PM
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That's way less of a problem than you make it out to be. As long as you don't use some kind of bridge but just a local zigbee or wifi network not connected to the internet everything will stay as is until a device physically breaks. Few devices actually need a cloud connection and and there are always alternatives that don't.
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Re:My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
by j45 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:26PM
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This has been my experience as well.
Still, some manufacturers like Lutron makes some nice switches however their cloud connectivity is not something I wish to keep a dependency on for the initial setup. There's simply no reason to make it mandatory.
Another piece of useful gear that is being discontinued is the Logitech Harmony Hubs... no replacement really, and the existing gear will be supported for an unknown period of time. Would be a great candidate to open source.