Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days agoWell that leaves me with mixed feelings.
Thread itself doesn’t need Internet connectivity, but thread seems to almost always be paired with matter, which does (during provisioning).
I like that matter provisioning requires verification of their certificate, but I don’t like that certificates can expire or the certificate authority can shut down. Although maybe that’s all taken care of by the DCL? In which case that’d be fine.
eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
In theory, Home Assistant could also give users the option to ignore certificate checks.
I also haven’t seen specific details on whether Home Assistant’s implementation allows sensors to contact the internet by default or what setting changes this.
It’s just foggier and less user focused by design in my opinion. But as one would expect when Google and other large corporations were the ones to develop it,