Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat

• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As long as HomeKit remains a thing.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Home assistant can talk to homekit devices without involving Apple, so you can assume it’ll be around for a while.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, 100%. Home assistant can basically connect to any damn thing. Home assistant is going to be the fall back for a lot of legacy iot devices and platforms.

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      • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not quite everything. The stuff that calls home to their own servers can’t be saved by home assistant. If you take care to buy stuff that can be controlled locally, you’re more likely to have some longevity out of your devices.

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  • wagesj45@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is a standard. I don't know how you can make it not be a thing once it is implemented.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it’s not an open standard, and all of the 3rd party home kit apps are basically a new client for services that Apple develops.

      I say this as someone who sticks with HomeKit because I think it’s one of the better IOT solutions if you care about for privacy and security. My home is all HomeKit compatible. Lutron, Eve, and homebridge for odds and ends.

      But I’m fully aware that, if Apple decided to pull the plug, I’d probably be running some sort of local home brewed HomeKit clone on a raspberry pi to keep the network alive.

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      • gears@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        HomeAssistant is HomeKit compatible and could probably do everything you’ve got going now locally

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