With a new ownership structure, Home Assistant is making its next big move
  • Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
  • The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
  • Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.
  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, that’s all Alexa and Google have on home assistant. Not to mention that sometimes you have to write yaml to create automations.

    • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      That doesn’t feel like a fair comparison. For the same level of setup you can get with Alexa and Google, I feel like it’s the same level of difficulty. If you want complex automations, sure you can yaml, but you’ll be doing things you couldn’t with Alexa or Google.

      This is assuming you’re starting with a yellow kit or something already set up and yeah, it’s basically just as easy.

    • AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      43·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, that’s all Alexa and Google have on home assistant.

      That seems like a massive thing though. If the average Joe can’t even install the product, then it doesn’t matter if it has way more features than its competitors.

      • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        8 months ago

        If average joe can’t be assed to to some research, the product isn’t for average joe and that’s a good thing. Because designing a product for average joe has a lot of drawbacks.