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Home Automation
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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.
It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.
Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.
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Experience with home assistant is not this. Everything runs great with extremely limited maintenance many years later for me. YMMV I guess.
You're spot on. Home assistant and cloudless devices is the only way to build a smarthome, anything else will eventually stop working as cloud services are shutdown.
I’ve been building up my home assistant system and trying to stick with cloudless as much as I can because of this. Curious how often the small devices like sensors or other hardwired items need to get replaced for you? Or have they all lasted quite well? Wiring everything isnt feasible for me at my current residence but I’ve been trying to hardwired everything within reason to make everything more stable/hopefully last longer.
I haven't had to replace any yet and have 12 zigbee temp/humidity sensors which are all battery operated.
That’s good to know! I got myself a bunch of zigbee battery sensors for temp and humidity too so that gives me some piece of mind. Have had a few go offline over the past few weeks but restarting always solved it. I’m still waiting for a proper zigbee dongle though and am currently using the Aqara hub with their sensors.