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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/LavenderLily on 2026-03-02 19:21:42+00:00.
My husband was really into home automation, and I know that he used Home Assistant. He died suddenly and unexpectedly last year. A few days ago, he got an email notice about an upcoming renewal of his Home Assistant Cloud subscription. If it lapses (which it will if I don't intervene since his credit cards are all closed), what will happen?
I know absolutely nothing about Home Assistant, and there's no time for me to learn since the renewal is in only a few days. So right now I just need to figure out if I should get into his account and update the credit card info or if I should just let it lapse.
In-use automations that I know of include lights that come on in the morning and go off at night (both in the house and outside). And he put a link on my phone that I could use to "manually" turn off a particular light that occasionally didn't turn off when it was supposed to.
I know he programmed stuff using Node Red. Does that require the cloud subscription?
He used voice commands through Google a lot, but there are only a couple that I use occasionally, and I could live without them (by removing the controllers and going to manual control). Should I expect that functionality to stop?