Smart Homes

As we're trending, I thought I'd lean into it and see what everyone is using.

If you have Hive products, as far as I can tell, when they stop working they cannot be hacked or repurposed, so they are just landfill. ...

I've spent the last couple of weeks trying — and mostly failing — to test Ikea’s new Matter-over-Thread gear. These highly anticipated smart home devices include programmable buttons, smart bulbs, plugs, and temperature and motion sensors — all of which should work with any smart home platform and start at just $6. ...

For example I have some last gen hue lights 1100 lm. Their color temp goes from 2000 - 6500 K. Why is that? I mean the are RGB, they can do pure blue and pure red, so they should be able to do any temperature, no?

The old (but still relatively new) smart home offerings from Ikea utilized Zigbee. Think light bulbs, remotes, leak sensors, air quality, outlets with power monitoring, etc. ...

I'm really just posting this in hopes that it helps someone in a similar situation in the future. ...

Hey guys, ...

Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted. ...

Home Assistant 2025.12! 🎄 ...

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Wanted to post my frustrations. Some years ago these plugs used to work nicely. Now for two years they disconnect themselves every week until I remove them from power for a bit. This makes them USELESS. I don't know what firmware version did this. ...

Hey y'all, I'm wondering what (if any) privacy-respecting Smart Home products there are. I understand that "smart" things are inherently privacy invasive, but I'd imagine some are worse than others. Surely Amazon Alexa isn't the best, right? ...

Some of my smarthome stuff uses matter through my appleTV. Does android have a way of accessing those accessories? He doesn't have any alexas or google homes so the multi-net probably isnt an option and my server is currently throwing a tantrum so homeassisnt isnt going to happen right now.

I want to install smart blinds on 4 windows, from small (2'x3') to kind of large (4'x5'). ...