Name checks out

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I think a lot of people like that it’s a preinstalled app on their phone. And especially now that they have guest mode. You can impress people that have iPhones and literally know nothing about smart homes by saying “hey check the home app on your phone, I just gave you guest access”.

In practice, I’ve never actually used guest mode, but I think it is a cool selling point.

Yeah, that is what I’ve heard! I’m actually a software developer by day, and I’ve even written a Homebridge plugin for IR control— though I didn’t publish it. Idk, maybe I’m just burnt out coding after my day job, and I’m happy to keep things simple. I also like that my partner can do everything I can without diving into another app.

If I did Home Assistant, I would want direct thread control from both Apple Home and Home Assistant. I want to minimize hops that any request has to take within the network. For example, I’m testing out a Nanoleaf Sense+ switch which has direct control of their lights over Thread without needing to touch a border router.

I also mess around with WLED, which is way more DIY and satisfies the side of me that wants to do more DIY.

The savings arrived just in time to counteract the Trump Elon 100% EV tariff. So the cars will just stay the same price

Prabhakar Raghavan

Lol they put the guy who ran Yahoo into the ground in charge of Google search.