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I built an offline smart home, and why you should too

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How I built a fully offline smart home, and why you should too

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I built an offline smart home, and why you should too

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How I built a fully offline smart home, and why you should too

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Saving for when I have my own home....if that ever happens.
Completely agree with the off line sentiment. I remember about 5 years ago I got some cheap Chinese smart lights that needed me to create an account and give Tuya/Smart Life unrestricted access to my network. And the delay sucked turning the light on in app because the signal had to go to their main server and back.
Anyways, I discovered HA and it's been really fun messing with ESP32 and Zigbee devices. I even host my own security cameras with Frigate.
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I don't need any of those things
- Some of them are wonderful, once you get used to having them. I have (mostly) smart lights in my house. Half the time you wouldn't know it however, since they work just like normal lights. However, you can also turn them on or off from your phone. Some also colour match to the outdoor light (helps with my daughter's bedtime).
  The key is to make sure the "smart" bits are transparent to a normal user. They also need to fail to a dumb configuration, not a dead one.
  
  It gets even better if you have them all automated. Every light in my house responds to room presence so I havent touched a digital or physical control in ages (except for recoloring :) )
Completely skipped the voice control which is the part I use the most.
If and when I'll make my home smart, I will try to use something offline for basic needs
Depends what you're automating.. Home Assistant isn't really suitable for larger homes, and it REALLY sucks at AV control compared to commercial systems.
It might be better than Google Assistant and Alexa, but its nowhere near high end systems
- What are "high end alternatives?"
  
  Large homes tend to use products like crestron or control4 which deal with AV better.
  I've installed in houses which are literally 16 TVs and 32 audio zones.
  Some products even work together with companies like this for native enhancements to their products to allow better control
  That being said, some things in HA are cool
- How is it not suitable for larger homes?
  
  AV control mainly. I've automated homes with 16 TVs and such.
- Where does it come up short?
  
  AV control in particular.
  You also can't develop device support for it in a nice way which requires confidential information to be stored

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