“Hey Snips, turn on the Kitchen Pi”
I am a huge fan of home automation. My last house was filled with so many hue lights, that we surpassed the limit of bulbs that could be joined to a single hue bridge (having to combine these bridges was my first dive into Home Assistant, I’ll have more on this setup in a later post). But I’m also a fan of technology that respects my freedoms and privacy - and unfortunately, pretty much all consumer home automation ecosystems rely on closed cloud services that package and sell your data to the highest bidder. Worse, appliances that pack in WiFi connectivity, like Samsung’s line of smart refrigerators, tend to lose support quickly, leaving consumers out of luck on features or exposed to security risks. Some features that would solve a few problems just weren’t in any of the offerings, either, so naturally I decided to roll my own. ...