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Re:The Midwit Smart Home by SamBam on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:50PM (#37863005)
Right, but the fact that running it on a Pi with Linux is the "much more pragmatic solution" is already ruling out about 90% of the US.
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Re:The Midwit Smart Home by Nextgrid on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:24AM (#37870975)
Keep in mind that Home Assistant provides ready-made images that behave like an appliance and can auto-update. In fact, it doesn't even give you a shell/SSH by default and such access is discouraged.

Thus the Linux/RaspberryPi underlying complexity is irrelevant to the user - the "complexity" is to dd/BalenaEtcher/etc a downloaded file to an SD card, put the card in the Pi and connect it to power. From there it's available over the network and can be configured through a web browser.

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