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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by holoduke on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#50444768)
I recently moved into a new house where I went all in with automating and measuring everything. Every single door and window has a sensor. Every single switch, light and all devices like wasmachines, garage doors, heatpumps, invertors, ovens, air filters is made smart an connected to my home assistant. I never ever saw the ui of home assistant. Everything is done with Claude and it works absolutely perfect. It would be a fulltime job to figure everything out manually. Also many devices like our heating floor manifold do not come with a build in Ethernet or wifi connector. I extensively used AI to connect an esp directly to its board. Once you got the Rx and tx working, Claude can reverse engineer the data streams and build a driver/integration for home assistant. AI is really super awesome here.

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