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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Cloud services for controlling things inside your house are the worst (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by besmtt@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I recently moved away from MyQ to local control of my garage door and I've been loving it. I stumbled across the linked issue where MyQ shit the bed for roughly 3 days and it just confirms to me that the extra effort to move away from a cloud service was worth it. I'm down to just one last cloud service for something inside my house. My mind is pretty much made up that if I can't accomplish it locally, I won't do/use it.

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[–] StandingCat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

FWIW i use myQ locally with no issues. I use the myq “homekit bridge” to integrate with home assistant locally.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting, I don't think that was an option back when I was using MyQ. I guess that's why Matter would be such a big improvement for things.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

First myq was completely open to integrate, then I believe they locked it down then they opened it up to homekit a year or two later.

I won't buy one out of principle. Any product or company that was a pain to work with during my days as a control4 integrator is blacklisted from my home. I won't do app-based setups, either.