You can automate much of your home and devices with a Raspberry Pi and open-source Home Assistant
This article is a worthy reminder that are already many things in your home which you can automate from garage door openers, to your home router, to a solar system, to lights, to speakers, and so much more.
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@danie10 if you hook up IoT devices like a Camera for example, how do you avoid it from 'phoning' home, which most models are made to do and possibly sending the feed to the manufacturer too? #HomeAssistant
@danie10 I was arm-twisted and persuaded that we need a Nanny Cam and at the moment we have a EUFY Indoor Cam. The only reason I bought it is because it's the only Cam I found that features E2EE for feed, local storage and if activated cloud storage too. But I see that #HomeAssistant has standard support for Cams like Xiaomi, which ordinarily I would not dream of buying - just wondering if Cams like that can be 'safely' integrated/operated with Home Assistant.
@pee only if you expose it - mine is all in the LAN and if I want to connect from outsid ethen I just flick OpenVPN on in my phone, do what I need to, and disable OpenVPN.
@danie10 Amazing to see that more and more home automation tasks can be done open source and on private hardware.
Putting all this data in "the cloud", who might sell it to third parties, can have unexpected consequences. I recently discovered that knowing the data series of my indoor room temperature (not any home automation data, just the temperature in one room) is already enough to give away the city I live in. https://paulbalduf.com/blog/room_temperature/
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