I wonder when AI will be designing its own chips. Or parts of its chip.

When it’s not an experiment:

• Do we know where it is?
• Is it mobile?

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HA has very specifically targeted the device I mentioned. While I know ESP Home and Esp32 generally is a vast topic and catalog… There’s one primary device (currently).

And it is, now, easy to set up once you find your way. When they improve the instructions, it is quite near to being a button click. And has been explained as nearly as much, hence the expectation.

I got a few smart plugs with matter. They paired nicely with HA, but surprised me by falling into their app anyhow.

But they work. Those are Kasa/tp-link.

What’re yours?

I recently added a kasa smart plug using matter. Then the tp-link integration noticed it and forced me to reauthenticate.

That’s my closest match to your story.

It had been given my username and password before. But it needed them all over again. I’ve had that happen for other things before, too.

Not sure if would help or if you have done it… But it takes about a literal minute to do.

Silly question:

In all of this, did you change your username or password?

I was simply explaining why I’m bailing on them.

Google graveyard has happened. YT makes them a lot of money, so it’s not likely destined there. But, like search, they will eventually make it more about $ extraction than value for the customer.

It hasn’t happened yet. Early adopters and early leavers shape things.

There’s multiple issues with this but a lot of them come down to: it’s Google.

They will charge. They have heaps of money, they will enzhittify. They will kill and recommend a new less capable app.

They’re Google and I’m moving away from them hard.

I do use YT a lot, and for now I pay. But give me a little time and that won’t be as true.

Home Assistant is open source, privacy oriented and working to make local non-cloud, non-Spyware) the norm.

It’s getting easier and easier to adopt and matter devices avoid cloud silliness.

My recommendation is to buy an RPi, SD card, and Mater devices as much as possible.

Voice is possible on Home Assistant and it will only get better. The devs, like many of us, prefer privacy and local control/storage.

There’s a way, it’s just not the path the author chose. The better path has only come about in the last year or so, tho.

Fwiw: you can tie the voice stuff into OpenAI and ask questions. It’s no longer local and each query costa fraction of a cent… But if you feel like you need that, it’s there.

I’ll add: ideally I’d like the slideshow to work while we’re in the area, and for the screen to go dark after a set time and/or HA knows we’re in bed. I can have a radar/sensor flag if we’re in the room, so any hardware wouldn’t need to have it.

I don’t know the worth of this opinion, but it resonates for me. .

I have never worked for Google or an affiliate, so I have no inside take.

Is Google turning into IBM?

I’m almost embarrassed to admit, I found an online image of the colors of the sky through the day, pasted it into excel, and then capture 160+ rgb values for the sunset. It was a tedious process, but no math got it right.

I set all those values (and a warmer and cooler set) in the script and then pass in the desired duration. Most nights we have a 45 minute sunset play out across 6 total lights. Three sets of values, so the bulbs don’t match.

Starts as soft white ending in the darkest twilight blue my bulbs can provide. We remark on it regularly and I think it’s helped ease us into the right frame of mind for sleep.

I run the same values in reverse for sunrise.

Clearly, its my favorite one.

Sunset and sunrise automations. Lights on and off, vacuum run times - all adapted to presence.

Made the litter-robot auto-repair when it enters trouble states. Better history of all elements controlled.

Matter, if implemented correctly, would save them all money and allow the privacy conscious to drop the cloud.

They are losing money on their voice assistants, so they want out of the business of being the voice part of the central hub.

They’ll find ways to monetize the users who are less privacy concerned, but that’s not me and I think it’s not a lot of people who are here.

Ediit: I didn’t downvote you. I’m here for discourse and have found down votes don’t help that.

Quick nofe: Albertsons and Kroger want to be one company. Soon.

Matter. Get it adopted. Buy and implement only Matter devices in the future.

Needs a year or two, but if we can get that tech widespread, this cloud stuff will be less essential.

Yep. Gotta exist in meatspace sometime. It’s just how we evolved. We need people. People proxies aren’t as nourishing.

Yet.