I have a lot of local-only stuff. I use HomeAssistant as well as a bunch of other random custom stuff ive done to make it into what I want. I hate "cloud" things and I want full control over it and I don't want it to go to "someone else's computer".
I even have a local voice system that can work with Home Assistant so I get Google/Alexa like functionality but everything is 100% local. Sure, it takes some work to build and maintain but I can have all of those things without dealing with a outside company being able to spy on me 24/7.
Mine is mostly lighting stuff. I really haven't touched it for years other than to maybe change morning on times when I change jobs or something.
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