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The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
  • The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
  • Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is HA not already the mainstream option for privacy and user control? Maybe I just live in a bubble, but it seems like it's already the go-to if you care about those things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I took it to mean they're going to put it in prettier packaging, simplifying its use for the average Joe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I have been using it for years and still find some things confusing. Like idk why it's so hard to figure out how to customize the dashboard and create new widgets for it. I've been a professional web dev for 8 years and if I'm struggling with it, you can bet most people aren't even going to bother. Idk what's so hard about providing simple html, css, and js like every other web framework.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm totally cool with that. Even as a more technically-minded user, I see a lot of things that could be way more streamlined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I totally agree! They've come a long way, but making it easier to use can only help grow support for the project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For technical people... Yes.

For people who aren't that technical? No.

Don't get me wrong, the Home Assistant Green and SkyConnect dongle is great and massively makes maintenance for the regular joe easier (no pis or other hardware that loads from the SD/hardware considerations).

But some stuff in UX would have to improve, which it already is doing ofcourse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You would need to make touching a config file non existent. They've improved this over time, but not quite there I imagine.