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Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You didn’t look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.