Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

Post by oulipo » Sat, Oct 21, 2017, 8:40 PM UTC

rumdz wrote: post #86

oulipo wrote: post #14

I'm a co-founder of Snips https://snips.ai , we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do You can use the platform for free (we will also open-source over time), it can run on Raspberry 3 and we added an integration with the amazing Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/components/snips

You guys are even using Rust for some of your projects on Github [0]. Yay :). [0]: https://github.com/snipsco

Post by trumpeta » Sat, Oct 21, 2017, 8:46 PM UTC

cardmagic wrote: post #93

kabes wrote: post #88

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Lots of time I'm lying in bed, almost falling asleep and suddenly realizing I left the kitchen light on. In fact, I'm not sure I did. But it doesn't allow me to sleep, so now I need to wake up, check the kitchen for a light that might not even be on. At that moment I'd be willing to pay a lot for a button on my phone to turn off all the lights.

I have a Roomba and if I don't close my bathroom door at night, it always gets stuck in the bathroom when it goes off in the morning. So every night, I make sure the bathroom door is closed before I go to bed. I would not pay anything for an app that closed my bathroom door. I just make sure I check at night. It still doesn't make sense to me. Roomba makes sense to me. Sweeping is hard and takes a significant amount…

Post by cardmagic » Sat, Oct 21, 2017, 8:54 PM UTC

dbm5 wrote: post #90

cardmagic wrote: post #84

Is anyone else here completely confused at how much hype there is around automated light management systems? I don’t get it. Is it really that hard to turn on and off lights manually that people really need all this stuff? What am I not getting?

While I understand your skepticism, there are a few use cases for which I use HA which would be either painful manually, or would require alternate devices such as timers/etc: 1 - outside lights - various lights which light our home's pathway or areas we prefer to have lit at night come on automatically at sundown and turn off at sun-up. 2 - scenes; with HA, we can click one button - a switch with scene control in ou…

Post by strin » Sat, Oct 21, 2017, 9:03 PM UTC

Post by semi-extrinsic » Sat, Oct 21, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

cardmagic wrote: post #96

dbm5 wrote: post #90

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While I understand your skepticism, there are a few use cases for which I use HA which would be either painful manually, or would require alternate devices such as timers/etc: 1 - outside lights - various lights which light our home's pathway or areas we prefer to have lit at night come on automatically at sundown and turn off at sun-up. 2 - scenes; with HA, we can click one button - a switch with scene control in ou…

My Kuna security cameras turn lights on at night and off at sun-up. My Nest already has presence detection and adjusts temps based on that. More importantly, I didn't buy a Kuna for lights on and off with the sun, nor a Nest for presence detection, so I still don't see these functions as killer apps for HA.