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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment

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[email protected]English • 6 months ago

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

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

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