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Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by sen »

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only.

I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by greyivy »

sen wrote: post #2

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

I've been using the signal-cli add-on for this with a lot of success. I can add attachments, have the notifications show up on all my devices, and share a group with my partner so we both get the same notifications. All end-to-end encrypted.

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Post by barbazoo »

sen wrote: post #2

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

Local only as in you can only use it and get notified when connected to your LAN?

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Post by gruez »

sen wrote: post #2

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

What type of smart theromstat allow local only operation? The popular ones I've looked at (nest, ecobee, honeywell) all look like they require internet connection to work.

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Post by afavour »

gruez wrote: post #6
sen wrote: post #2

Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

What type of smart theromstat allow local only operation? The popular ones I've looked at (nest, ecobee, honeywell) all look like they require internet connection to work.

I have an ecobee and I actually wonder whether it needs an internet connection. For setup, certainly. But I have it connected to Apple HomeKit, which all runs on internal networking. My Apple TV then exposes HomeKit for use outside the house.

Either way, HA lets you use a whole load of random ZWave/ZigBee/whatever thermostats:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/latest-and-greatest-th...

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by BrittonR »

threatofrain wrote: post #7

What kind of hardware do people install Home Assistant hubs on? Does anyone have a good guide to a minimal but clean smart home setup?

I think the majority of people use a Raspberry Pi. Personally I use Pi4 with a SSD running Ubuntu. I run Home Assistant using Docker.
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