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Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home
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I’m on the bandwagon of no “smart home” devices that connect to the cloud. I build a lot my own little controllers with the ESP8266/ESP32 using MQTT to communicate with OpenHAB.
OpenHAB has served me well, but I started using it so long ago that I have not tried out some of the newer options like HomeAssistant.
Here is one of the devices I developed. https://www.instructables.com/Introducing-Climaduino-The-Arduino-Based-Thermosta/
The code referenced in the Instructable is much older code. I don’t think I have my current and much simpler code on Github. If there is any interest, I can push it.
My new code just turns things on or off and monitors temperature and humidity.
HomeAssistant has been around almost as long as OpenHAB (2013 vs. 2010), so it's not exactly "newer". It's good that there are several open source options, but I don't see anything wrong with sticking with what works for you (OpenHAB for me as well, btw).