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

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

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Post by bedros »

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

thank you for your work on this, I was thinking last week of nice to have assistant like echo or google, but I don't trust either company

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

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Post by zild3d »

strin wrote: post #98

The home IoT world is broken - I got lots of devices (Sonos, Hue, Alexa, Roku, ...) and they don't play well with each other. Shoutout for data and API integration layer for Home IoT.

Haven't used it but I've heard openHAB is an option to speak to the various devices (alexa and hue directly supported, sonos and roku supported through IFTTT)

http://docs.openhab.org/addons/io.html

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

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Post by ghroos »

SEJeff wrote: post #113
ghroos wrote: post #32

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Having contributed to a number of projects via github, this is not true at all. I have had prs closed within minutes with curt replies. That is not how you “help newer devs through a PR process.” In another case this happened for a very clear bug. I’m cool with making amendments but maintainers do not seem open to that often, feeling more content to close things because they see the fix as a “hack”. Compared to other…

Mind mentioning a link to the PRs you're referring to?

Sure. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/9272 Closed with prejudice as a “hack.” I actually spent some time to make this feature request implementation consistent with other code as another contributor mentioned.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/9270 The second one was based on an observed defect in the UI. The defect is still there but apparently this is flippantly a “feature” now.

Disagreements about implementation aside this is not the response I’ve gotten from better maintained projects.

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

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Post by ryukafalz »

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.

Can you use the Nest's presence detection to turn your lights off when there's nobody home?

One of the "killer apps" for HA is connecting different silo'd smart devices.

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

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Post by jeena »

balloob wrote: post #12

Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

I don't have a external screen and http://hassio.local:8123/ says 'Server not found', because my network is a bit special. Therefor I connected via serial to the rp and now it asks me for a username and password which I can't find. Would you care sharing this?

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

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Post by kuschku »

icebraining wrote: post #87
kuschku wrote: post #70

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Yeah, I’m trying to switch to an arduino-based solution, but I just really want to avoid WiFi. And building custom protocols isn’t that optimal either.

There are MQTT libraries for Arduino that work with the Ethernet shield.

Good idea, for some reason I forgot that the Ethernet shield exists!

Thank you a lot, this really helps.

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

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Post by mike-cardwell »

vonseel wrote: post #118
mike-cardwell wrote: post #112

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Cron job on my home server starts sending commands over zwave at 6am for about half an hour to slowly increase the brightness of my master bedroom light from 0% to 100% at 1% increments. So when I get up, it's not pitch black, and I don't go from zero to blinding light in one moment. Probably my favourite thing I've done with home automation so far.

Built into the Hue app, but I bet it was fun to code :)

Some basic bash scripting and a cron job.

Can I control a Hue light bulb with some basic bash scripting and a cron job? Can I do it without calling out to some Internet based web service?

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

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Post by danellis »

nitrogen wrote: post #116
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?

Is your first reaction to anything you don't understand to question its existence? Maybe try to find the value others see first, then you will be better prepared to weigh that value against your own values.

> Maybe try to find the value others see first

That is exactly what he's doing.

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

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Post by danellis »

oulipo wrote: post #80
halflings wrote: post #26

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> which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do And on your website: > The First On-Device Voice Platform Android already has on-device voice recognition. Just try getting in airplane mode and saying "OK Google, play music" or something that does not require being online.

Yes, but their business model is still to get and sell your data to advertiser We do a 100% on-device platform, where your data never leaves the platform, and we want to power the next generation of private-by-design smart IoT devices

Sigh

How many times do we have to do this? Google isn't selling your data to advertisers.

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