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anybody using homeassistant and having success? i feel like everything i try with it is extra complicated, but i'd love to hear others' success stories.

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[–] shadshack@feddit.online 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah, I use it for everything from automated lights to server monitoring notifications to Web scraping for when Publix chicken tender subs are on sale. Most everything you can think of is pretty well documented, and someone's done it before. They have made some UI changes recently that make creating automations easier, but if you are ok with copying and editing YAML files, you can steal what other people have created pretty easily.