Flying SquidAmazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI
Gradually_AdjustingI will be the last person to not have a smart home. There will be a banner over the doorway: “Welcome to Stupid House”.
There will be a small cover charge.
MaestroYou 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
Sippy CupI’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 😄
BigFigHave 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/
LoafyLemonTeach me your ways. Setting up Home Assistant seems like such a daunting task. I'm stalling converting my devices into it. Any tips for a 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
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.