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>It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they're all - with very few exceptions - terrible:

Archive: https://archive.today/l9mZr From the post: >>It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they're all - with very few exceptions - terrible:

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HA is great if you like programming and have the tolerance to put up with weird shit like certain graphing functions doing whatever they feel like.

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Yeah, I have not gotten around to it but you can replace the graphing with grafana and influxdb. Otherwise, HA for (some) things is very plug and play.

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Home Assistant has some issues with certain cards being too rigidly defined, and relying a lot on the community at large. There's also the constant flux and change, especially when it comes to "We decided to redefine how X worked, now your entity configurations aren't valid."