"I want less big tech and more open source in my life."
Kevin and I used to run in the same Google and Tech circles for many years. It's interesting to see both of us ending up going down similar paths again.
I've been looking at Hime Assistant recently too.
Home. 😡
I ran home assistant with ~100 devices in the home. I can say, it was a flawless experience.
My problem is most of my devices are all Google/Nest ðŸ˜
I know this is going to blow your mind, but that’s what I switched to. The stability and ease of access/use is unmatched.
I even use Google Wi-Fi Pro. I a ton of money over two years trying residential routers, then got the nest Wi-Fi. I haven’t had to so much as reboot it since.
My next will be Ubiquity, but Nest has been great - evil corporation aside.
I had the last generation Google/Nest WiFi. Ugh. Fuck them 🤣 Google came out with a firmware update that broke mine. For nearly a year I would have to reboot my devices once a week, sometimes several times a week. I finally got a new router last year and I haven't had any issues since switching.
Yeah I think gen 1 had some pretty serious issues. Gen 2 isn’t even compatible with them. Gigabit speeds through most of my house with two units.
I miss some of the flexibility for port forwarding, etc. but my conclusion is self hosting is not something you use for something you need to work 99.999% of the time.
Self-hosted on a dedicated server in a DC is as close as I come now.
Holy shit thank you. I have so many of these. Google kept giving me free ones 🤣
Really happy that me and my roommate didn't get to balls deep into the google devices before we set up home assistant.
Would have made the swap really pricy lol.
Nice!
