Nice! If I understand correctly this is fully local and doesn't depend on cloud stuff? After a few failures I don't want anything that relies on somebody's buggy cloud systems.
My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
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#22Not sure if I'm just getting older, but the less things/complications in my home, the more peace of mind I have. Been watching the youtube LTT channel on his smart home and I feel all the things going on would drive me crazy. This doesn't apply only to tech, but even for my next house (Looking into passive homes, least possible HVAC footprint, floorplan for minimal plumbing/electrical).
For me, a lot of that came down to making sure every automation I add is usable with the least amount of mental effort. For the longest time I didn't automate much at all and often questioned whether I needed all this or not, then we had a baby.
Now we have a button in his nursery that will dim the lights, start playing white noise on a Google Home speaker, mark the start of a new nap on our Babybuddy instance, then turn off the lights after 30 seconds. When I press it again, it turns off the noise and stops the sleep tracking. If we didn't have Home Assistant we'd have to do all these things manually multiple times a day. Instead it just takes a single button press.
It's a small example, but things like this will keep popping up, and I'm looking forward to making them easier.
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#23When you sell a house like this... what do you leave behind and what do you take?
This has increasingly been on my mind. I've no desire to sell soon, but there's a Nest doorbell that is wired in, so it stays. A Nest thermostat, which I could remove but when I got the boiler I chose to not have the control panel extra with timer as I knew I had Nest. Then the lighting, the motion sensors... should I take the few thousand GBP worth of Hue bulbs? That feels like a yes, just put in the cheapest bulbs.
And so it begins... some things stay, some things go, and the tooling is the hardest. This person has touch screen control panels and Home Assistant. Even if you left it behind, you'd need to transfer the knowledge around it too. But remove it, and the house goes beyond dumb in many ways.
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#24no thanks. I like switches and using my body. This kind of tech as progress is a fallacy.
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#25When you sell a house like this... what do you leave behind and what do you take? This has increasingly been on my mind. I've no desire to sell soon, but there's a Nest doorbell that is wired in, so it stays. A Nest thermostat, which I could remove but when I got the boiler I chose to not have the control panel extra with timer as I knew I had Nest. Then the lighting, the motion sensors... should I take the few thous…
you wouldn't be required to perform KT.
in Texas anything attached stays so even lightbulbs but you can also exclude anything explicitly.
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#26No post body was provided.
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#27When your power goes out for a few minutes, what state does everything go into when it resumes?
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#28Whoa, I didn't realize automatic radiator valves existed. Always feel guilty about using a space heater because the radiator gets way to hot.
The valves/thermostats in the article is actually kinda big. More modern ones are not much larger than the regular thermostats. It might be a question about which models can be integrated into Home Assistant.
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#29When you sell a house like this... what do you leave behind and what do you take? This has increasingly been on my mind. I've no desire to sell soon, but there's a Nest doorbell that is wired in, so it stays. A Nest thermostat, which I could remove but when I got the boiler I chose to not have the control panel extra with timer as I knew I had Nest. Then the lighting, the motion sensors... should I take the few thous…
We left the hardwired stuff, a couple Nest thermostats and the garage door openers (obviously) that were connected via wifi, and unplugged and brought with us the Phillips Hue hub. I forget if I took the time to take the Hue bulb out of the ceiling fan.
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#30Home Assistant is also quite useful in a Company Office / Small Business.
There's daily "added value" on repetitive tasks and simple automations that provide immediate productivity gains.
It's also a great platform to implement weird "physical workflows" that aren't common in household scenarios.