But it is largely due to the inconvenience of installation relative to just coasting on existing home infrastructure. I also don't bother with roof solar and home battery backups, a household wide firewall, or anything connected to a raspberry pi. Just implemented Jellyfin over Christmas and my wife regularly throws up her hands at it, preferring Amazon Prime or HBO Max at every opportunity.

For the most part, the cost of an individualized IT component isn't worth the pain of support. If I was looking for an apartment or a condo, I would absolutely be interested in their building wide IT setup. But the whole point of IT is to deliver at scale. Homelabing can be a fun hobby but it's a shit-pay second job.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Same here. Not the working in IT part, though.

Zorg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTsFtwO0u0

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

This made me wonder, are there any mechanical switches that can be switched by a smart something? As in, a regular switch where the user always has mechanical control, even when the smart system is down, but that optionally can be switched by a smart sytem, state reading is optional.

[–] Giloron@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Most of them. The up and down are buttons behind the normal looking switch. It works manually before pairing to the network.

Shelly also makes a small module that wires in with the existing switch. Up and down lose meaning and just signal to change state.

[–] xav@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I'm using Sonoff switches. They work very well with HA but they also operate independently if it's down. So I always install the behind a physical switch, that way I always have a backup in case something's wrong (and I know it will happen).

[–] gajahmada@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

If my brief research for HA sometimes ago is correct many popular brand have it, at least for electrical switches like lamp, also garage door opener conversion but the few I watched looked like a pain to set up.

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[–] StopTech@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago

Everything was better before computers

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Some users here: "I haven't had a need for this tech, others should not use it." Caveman grunts

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