"no smart home crap" Yeah... That's just a choice. I have two homegrown smarthome solutions that are amazing and complex without creating security holes.

[–] Lemmee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can tell it’s an IT guy’s home assistant if there’s no hardware that requires someone else’s cloud.

My home automation philosophy is that everything in the house should work with or without internet. It’s going well so far.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good recommendation for light bulbs?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't do the lightbulbs (unless you rent). Do the power to the sockets.

Smart lightbulbs are a fucking rort

[–] BasicallyHedgehog@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One benefit of smart lightbulbs is being able to control the colour temperature

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is great if you do that on the reg

[–] Lemmee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

There’s a great automation integration in home assistant that uses the suns position and time of day to automagically set the color temp throughout the day. It’s super nice to have the color temp get warmer as the sun sets.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 month ago

do not