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There’s a lot of stuff that can work with Home Assistant, but it’s essentially never listed as a feature on the package, so normal people will never know it’s an option.
That’s the problem – the lack of marketing – not any lack of functionality on Home Assistant’s part.
Of course it requires some tinkering and is not accessible to all users.
Yeah, that’s the point. None of that helps normies who just want to buy the first product they see and have it “just work.”
(And I say “first product they see” because, although Tasmota/ESPHome/WLED devices are available from e.g. Amazon, if not brick-and-mortar stores, if you look hard enough, they’re definitely not what Amazon pushes at you. Amazon wants you to fall for their marketing and infest your house with Alexa so they can exfiltrate even more personal data, up to and including the floor plan if you buy one of their affiliated smart vacuums.)
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It’s not adopted widely because every single smart home device marketed to normies is infected with cloud bullshit. Go to Home Depot or whatever and look on the shelf: literally every single product will have “Works with Alexa,” “Works with Google Home,” and/or “Works with Apple HomeKit” badges stamped all over the package, but not a single one will mention a damn thing about Home Assistant even when the device actually is compatible. The closest you get is ones that mention “Matter” 'cause it’s at least supposed to be a standard, but it feels like it’s getting slow-walked harder than CableCard sometimes (and if you don’t remember how that worked out, the answer is “not well”).
I would almost call it a conspiracy against openness, but it’s really just the banal result of no rent-seeking leading to no excess profit to plow back into marketing… which is even worse.
10·3 days agoJust like 1995 Internet compared to 2025 Internet.
Especially because it must be Free Software!
(No seriously, with HVAC systems often being “smart” these days, that’s my primary cobsideration.)
That one isn’t funny.
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
I mean, I am an urban hipster with a cargo bike… or would be, if I were hip. That part of the comment was self-satire. (Also, I did not say anything about it being “impractical!”)
As for your first notion, I don’t like it either. Now, to be fair, in addition to those farmers markets and “farmers markets” we do also have regular grocery stores that I can also get to by bike. But still, my comment was about factual reality and my actual experience of how it works in my area, and whether I like it or not doesn’t change it.
6·4 days agoThat article correctly noted that if they had to wait for an official Administration response on every story, it gives the Administration a de-facto veto by simply being too busy to reply.
This tactic of obstruction deserves more attention.
17·5 days agoEven if there were police officers directing traffic at intersections, the cars aren’t programmed to recognize & respond to them.
That by itself ought to automatically disqualify any such driverless car for use on public roads.
There are “farmer’s markets” and then there are farmer’s markets. Riding your cargo bike to the once-a-week market in the urban hipster neighborhood’s park to pay $5 for a tomato is not the same thing as driving out to the actual state-run farmer’s market and spending $5 for a bushel.
Compare:
Pretty sure Trump has been chauffeured all his life. He doesn’t give enough of a shit about his car to appoint it to anything.
No, for that you need Turbolinux
4·9 days agoI’ve been looking for a similar thing (actually I don’t even really care about the “smart” part; I just want fitness tracking sensors), but have yet to find anything suitable.
<impoverished Georgia Power ratepayer noises>
53·9 days agognusnotuniximagemanipulationtoolkitlibraryobject
Man, one of these days I need to get off my ass and do some designing like this. I’ve been wanting a (normal 19") rackmount case designed for short depth, front-mount I/O, and hot swap drive cages for a while now, but can’t get it out of my head and into CAD (let alone physical reality).
Not mentioned:
And that’s the real reason they do it. They lure unsuspecting users in with promises of enhanced functionality, but it’s all a ploy to get their data.