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>I recently moved into a new apartment which I used as an opportunity to make our home a little smarter. As a big open source supporter I built my smart home platform with Home Assistant of course. Unfortunately, there are still far too few products that are directly compatible with Home Assistant. Especially in the area of humidifiers where I only found products that rely on a proprietary app or cloud from the manufacturer. Something that I would like to avoid at all costs. For one thing, such dependence is a certain form of planned obsolescence, as the product becomes useless as soon as the app loses its compatibility with new smartphone operating system versions or the manufacturer’s cloud is no longer operated.

Archive: https://archive.today/L3KoZ From the post: >>I recently moved into a new apartment which I used as an opportunity to make our home a little smarter. As a big open source supporter I built my smart home platform with Home Assistant of course. Unfortunately, there are still far too few products that are directly compatible with Home Assistant. Especially in the area of humidifiers where I only found products that rely on a proprietary app or cloud from the manufacturer. Something that I would like to avoid at all costs. For one thing, such dependence is a certain form of planned obsolescence, as the product becomes useless as soon as the app loses its compatibility with new smartphone operating system versions or the manufacturer’s cloud is no longer operated.
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Why would I buy a humidifier that requires internet access?

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Eventually it might be impossible to find anything that does not "connect to the internet". At least there are people like us that are gutting that shit and making it either "dumb" or "local only".

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The author's intent was to make a controllable humidifier that can talk to home assistant. While that would be easy enough with a controllable plug and one of those simple on-off devices, I bet this one exposes more information to the end user, such as water level, consumption rate, controllable consumption, etc.