What Reddit Says About Smart Home Apps

HA is good but you may also want a backup app, be it Google Home, Apple HomeKit, Alexia ... Home Assistant and some Google Home (my Home Assistant devices show up in Google Home and I haven't taken the time to build out a decent HA dashboard ...

Its just a fact in the world of smart homes today, cheap wifi devices often only support it. They do not support 5ghz. Zigbee/zwave and now thread(matter) is better than wifi so focus new devices on those protocols. That said, there are some devices that only work with wifi that are awesome, a lot o...

We have it as we were early adopters and they had the most devices to connect to. I am trying to find a way to unwind and go to Apple. ... I have no advice to give, only my experience. ... Home Assistant is the best.

Home Assistant is the most versatile and will probably end up holding all the smart devices in one area. However, that being said, there are two big drawbacks that people in this sub don't usually talk about: restrictions with voice commands ...

HA can incorporate almost every smart-home device, security camera, music speaker, voice assistant and appliance on the market and is probably the most powerful and robust protocol available. Homey Pro would be a close second. Best of all, the ...

They even just released a paid add on that looks very very similar to node red and its called “advanced flows” ... Don't run your app from your phone. Run everything through a server.

I'll read it, I appreciate the help and insight! Continue this thread ... In regards to network, after years with bt I just changed to Trooli, and the response and re connecting everything was so much faster, all the ‘peer to peer’ messages all gone in HomePods too. ... Aquara smart doorbell Ma...

If you've got an Android phone, then go with Google Home since that'll have much better integration. If you've got an iPhone, you can feasibly do either. ... you'll have to find a platform that all your devices can connect to.

New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Share ... You need to move away from WiFi devices and start working on a platform. I use SmartThings, but there are others, Habitat, Home Assistant, Homey looks promising.

Prior to migrating to the matter format, I had a robust tuya based smart Home. I used workarounds to get it to cooperate with Siri. This set up is so much easier to run through HomeKit. I personally will never migrate away from analog locks so I don’t have any recommendations there, but I have seen ...

Hub recommendation: first time smart home setup. ... A place to share and discuss all things related to home automation. ... I got tired of hunting for smart home setup codes, so I built an app to store them all that I actually like and does not trap me in a subscription

My question is what is your favorite Android app for your smart home setup? Share ... However if you want advanced automations and custom dashboards, then Home Assistant might be worth getting into.

My first setup with a 2Gb Pi3 and that struggled hence my recommendation for 4GB ... I use two; Tibber for heating automation and IKEA Tradfri for lights. What devices you have will trigger what apps you'll use. There are hubs like Athom Homey Pro that integrates many smarthome systems, and the...