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Re:Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir by smt88 on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:07PM (#38888305)
> OpenHAB abstracts all of your devices. So your light switch can directly interact with Spotify , or your tv input can influence the color of your Philips hue bulbs.

Yes, this is exactly what HA does. I have devices of wildly different, closed-off brands working with each other.

> This is native, you can also do scripting to support custom actions as well, which is based on JavaScript.

HA also has this.

> Also notifications aren’t locked behind a paywall with openHAB.

They're not in HA either.

> OpenHAB cloud is free

I would rather pay my home automation system to make sure they can survive and keep maintaining the software. I think I pay like $5/month. I was recently trying to figure out how to pay them more, honestly.

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Re:Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir by grepfru_it on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:17PM (#38888359)
Then openHAB is not for you, cheers!
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Re:Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir by andruby on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:26PM (#38917616)
I think the other commenter was hoping for some compelling reasons why you prefer OpenHAB over HA. On the surface both system seem very similar, I can't really figure out where they differ from looking at both homepages.
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