Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment - eviltoast

Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse

  • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    281·
    8 months ago

    Never in a million years would I buy always-online trash when I could just use Home Assistant and control my devices locally.

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      Also, ESPHome is crazy good. It’s honestly not that hard or experiensive to take a dumb device and splice in some non-cloud home assistant capacity w/ ESPHome