Comment on Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Former trucker here.

  I’ve been using home assistant for a year. No degree in software engineering here

  Stupidly simply to set up.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I used it for several years. It’s incredibly complicated to set up. After the 3rd or 4th time it offed itself randomly or some random update broke it, I gave up and put manual shit back everywhere. Giant waste of time and money. Please don’t send others to the same fate.

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    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds like a skill issue

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t blame HA for your choice in gear.

        1. This has absolutely nothing to do with my gear.

        2. I am not “blaming” HA at all. I am blaming the hundreds of people on the internet who constantly insist that everyone should use it, and that it’s “easy to use”.

        I managed to set it up with no issues.

        Copngratulations. You are clearly significantly more experienced than I am with technology. Along with 95% of the general population.

        So why were you updating anything that was working?

        Asking me why I would update my install is a strange question. All the same reasons anyone else would update their installs. All the same reasons they continue to create updates.

        Were you using cheap-ass crap that needed a cloud connection?

        Yes, I was using cheap crap. Mostly from Aqara. Once again, the gear was never the problem. The problem was the HA configuration.

        None of it needed any cloud connections other than whatever moron decided to distribute integrations directly through Github.

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