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Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years
For the next 3 to 4 years (if you will be lucky), then they will pass to something new and they will simply kill it, like they done with a lot of other projects.
Yes, good idea. Lets voluntarily wiretap our owns homes. /S
I still can't believe people are this dumb.
It's crazy to me that people allow a corporation with a vested interest in selling all the data it can about you to have cameras and microphones placed all over their homes.
The problem is that people don't know or don't care about a corporation selling their data.
Not to mention the fact that, Google being Google, this is going to be shitcanned in a couple of years, anyway.
But what about the convenience?
I use Home Assistant as my “main” smart home server then have HomeKit on iOS, macOS connect to it.
You don’t need Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft involved at all if you don’t want to. In fact, with Matter it’s easier than ever to get away from Big Tech.
Can I use my current google speakers with homeAssistant? Can they still do the 'grouped speakers' things? Can I still 'cast' media?
My comment is pure sarcasm but couldn’t be bothered to do the alternating bIg/SmAlL letters or the /s.
I figured as much but I thought I might still try to help anyone reading.
You do, however, need a degree in software engineering.
Former trucker here.
I've been using home assistant for a year. No degree in software engineering here
Stupidly simply to set up.
I used it for several years. It's incredibly complicated to set up. After the 3rd or 4th time it offed itself randomly or some random update broke it, I gave up and put manual shit back everywhere. Giant waste of time and money. Please don't send others to the same fate.
Sounds like a skill issue.
I'm just a dumb ol trucker with an Alabama public school education.
I managed to set it up with no issues.
And for the record, it doesn't do "random" updates unless you tell it to.
So why were you updating anything that was working? Were you using cheap-ass crap that needed a cloud connection?
Don't blame HA for your choice in gear.
Don't blame HA for your choice in gear.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with my gear.
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I am not "blaming" HA at all. I am blaming the hundreds of people on the internet who constantly insist that everyone should use it, and that it's "easy to use".
I managed to set it up with no issues.
Copngratulations. You are clearly significantly more experienced than I am with technology. Along with 95% of the general population.
So why were you updating anything that was working?
Asking me why I would update my install is a strange question. All the same reasons anyone else would update their installs. All the same reasons they continue to create updates.
Were you using cheap-ass crap that needed a cloud connection?
Yes, I was using cheap crap. Mostly from Aqara. Once again, the gear was never the problem. The problem was the HA configuration.
None of it needed any cloud connections other than whatever moron decided to distribute integrations directly through Github.
Convenience is a legitimate reason. Some people don't want to do research, they want to go to best buy or amazon and buy everything in whatever ecosystem they know.
Yeah, but is it going to stick around for years, or months?