• @maxprime@lemmy.ml
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    381 year ago

    Put home assistant on a raspberry pi, plug a Zigbee dongle to it, and start connecting smart gadgets to it. Or better yet buy a home assistant Green. You can check the home assistant docs to see if a smart device requires cloud connectivity to work — in general if it connects through Zigbee (or ZWave or Matter) then you’re good, but if it connects through WiFi then it probably is cloud based.

    https://www.home-assistant.io/

    https://www.seeedstudio.com/Home-Assistant-Green-p-5792.html

    https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

    • @just_another_person@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      Can confirm. I run Home Assistant and Rhasspy with Sengled bulbs and none of transmits info. The devices themselves aren’t generally the issue, it’s the hub that operates them that would be collecting and sending the info. Remove that, and you don’t have to worry.

      • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        wow so Rhasspy is local voice assistant! do you have microphones places throughout your pad or do you go to a website first to speak or what?

    • BaroqueInMind
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      1 year ago

      Why do I need a RaspberryPi? I can’t use my regular Linux PC? What is a Zigbee dongle and why is it mandatory? What do I do if he device is cloud based?

      • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You can use your regular PC if you want, but having an always-on server (the pi) makes it more convenient to use from, say, your phone.

        Zigbee is a popular wireless communication protocol used by iot devices. Without the dongle you won’t have any way to talk to them.

        If it’s cloud based, buy something else that isn’t.

      • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Your Zigbee light switches won’t do anything unless the machine running Home Assistant is on. Being able to control your lights while the computer isn’t running is really convenient.