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Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try? (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Sigmatank@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I've really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the best things about HASS is the counterweight it applies to the home automation industry.
When everyone is trying to lock people in to proprietary systems, the hass community is keen to find alternatives.

"To use this temperature sensor, you must use our hub and app"
2 days later: 'Good news everyone, it's manchester coding on 433Mhz, and I've written a direct integration for rtl_433'

[–] lolgcat@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wait a minute, is FLOSS home automation really this robust? Having avoided most wifi enabled gadgets, I'm pretty out of the loop here

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

It's pretty good, honestly!

I also avoid wifi gadgets where possible, I try to go for Zigbee, Z-wave, or 433MHz stuff.

For things that "have" to be IP, I put them on a separate vlan, then interface through them using hass.

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can check what it supports. Though there are some stuff that people have created support for that aren't on there yet as well

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/