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This is why Home Assistant will keep winning. I don't even have the time or energy to engage with smart home shit but have the itch to run Home Assistant. With esp modules you can build your own smart home bullshit and add it to home assistant pretty easily. That, though, would require futurist treatlerites to have a single molecule of desire to make something instead of simply consuming. So its never going to have mass appeal.
I have to imagine when these futurist treatlerites think about "home automation" they subconsciously want to recreate the experience of having a slave. When I think about home automation I consciously want to recreate the experience of being the dad from Honey I Shrunk The Kids. We're not the same.
Home Assistant is great. If i had more time I'd set up some ESP modules (cost is not an issue, they are very cheap).
It runs on a raspberry pi 3 or newer or a docker container on an existing server, plus a zigbee or zwave usb device that can be bought off AliExpress.
I would like to get a weather sensor or non-cloud doorbell camera working with it, but for now i have cheap zigbee lights and switches.
For less than the cost of a few philips hue bulbs and bridge, I put in some cheap floor, ceiling, and wall lamps and smart bulbs - my old house has very few ceiling lights. I can see better and they automatically dim and get warmer at night.