I 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.

I’m with you. I hate how they expect me to control everything from my phone or with voice commands. I’m fine walking to a light switch or walking to the thermostat.

There’s a middle ground as well. I refuse to put Alexa or OK Google or whatever on any of my stuff, but I run home-assistant with zigbee smart devices. My entire setup runs completely cut off from the internet. I could in theory even air gap it, although that’s a little overkill. It’s a “smart” house, but one I’m 100% in control of.

Is that self hosted? I’d just about fuck with a FOSS self hosted smart home setup, but even then I could barely be arsed