I’m never putting one of these in my home.
You can have a privacy-first smart home. I have. I run Home Assistant in a docker container. No external services/plugins. My smart doorbell streams to my local nvr. If my internet is down, everything keeps working. And it’s not even that hard anymore. It’s become a lot easier over the last 2-3 years. Still not for non-techie users, but a lot better.
That sounds pretty reasonable.
Edit: Still kind of want to call my place “Stupid House” for myriad other reasons
Teach me your ways please! Setting up a Home Assistant seems like such a daunting task. I’m stalling converting my devices into it. Any tips for a (home assistant) beginner?
I just followed the steps on their site. Containers give me cancer, so I did a real install on my home server.
Caveat: I am a professional software engineer (but I didn’t really have to hack anything)
Start with a Raspberry Pi and just follow the docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/
That’s the easy way. I did it the hard way, but that’s because I run on on a big dedicated home server together with a dozen other services.
I’m not tech illiterate by any means, and everything after “home assistant” in that post is Greek to me
Docker is a way to run containers. Basically lightweight virtual servers. That makes it easy to run multiple servers on one machine. An NVR is a network video recorder. It’s like a video security system like they use in stores where all cameras are viewed and recorded in a single place. I assume you know what a doorbell is 😄
Have any resources to get started with that? Been looking into security systems but don’t fully trust nest/ring/simplisafe etc
Just start with a local Home Assistant on. Raspberry Pi and go from there: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/
