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I've been toying with the idea to implementing HA for a couple of years.

I have no fewer than 10 "smart device" apps on my phone and the privacy implications make me sick. I've been a Google Home and it's been a sad experience.

Over the holidays, I got Proxmox working on an old laptop and ordered a ZigBee stick and some sensors.

Installing HA using helper scripts was dummy easy and the laptop is performing solidly. Got hung up on network setup and z2m but pulled through with some Google-fu.

Did I have to do some tinkering? Yes. Can I control all - literally ALL - my smart devices on one customizable dashboard? F*** YEAH!

I am looking forward to accomplishing more, unplugging from the cloud, learning a lot, and hopefully making some life tasks less annoying.

Thank you to this community for the awesome work, conversation, and inspiration!

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[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Welcome to HA :) freeing all of the devices from the cloud can be quite a rabbit hole, but at the same time it's very satisfying. If you're concerned about privacy or devices still phoning home you could consider installing pihole or disallowing specific wifi-connected devices to communicate on the internet via your router settings

[-] afk_strats@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Oh for sure. This whole thing is a rabbit hole. PiHole\Adguard is definitely on my to-do list

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