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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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The Broadlink RM4 Pro is a RF and IR blaster, and it integrates with home assistant. It can be a little tricky to get set up initially depending on your router, it doesn't always figure out the 2.4 ghz signal from certain brands (like the Asus I have apparently), but once its set up it works pretty well. The integration to home assistant is a little bit of a learning curve depending on how familiar you are with it, but it wasn't too bad. I'm not sure if it phones home is the only thing, I know they have an online app and ecosystem, but the home assistant integration is local.
I have one of these too, works well. Pretty sure it phones home, but it only needs internet for initial setup so it can be blocked in the firewall after that.