HAC has problematic connotations, so we renamed it to HAL, which is 9000 times better.
“I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do that”
“You’re absolutely right. Thank you for pushing back.”
TL;DR Home Assistant Cloud is now Home Assistant Link
Good move and well substantiated.
Someone tell OpenAI, this strategy might save their ass.
I have no idea what it was, but home assstant is anything but ‘no lock-in’ they have a very narrow idea of what you should and shouldn’t do with it, how and why. Essentially you are (or were didn’t have time lately to check) locked to home assistant os.
You’re right, you have no idea what it is.
Essentially you are (or were didn’t have time lately to check) locked to home assistant os.
Since when? I use it frequently in my house. The possibilities are damn near endless, you have the freedom to do damn near whatever the fuck you want with it.
The problems come with shitty vendor integrations that intentionally gimp functionality when the devices aren’t used in whatever “official” app the vendor ships. That’s not HA’s fault, tha’s squarely on the vendor for doing shit in bad faith to steer low-IQ customers (like you, apparently) to the “official” app.
Me, I don’t have “shitty vendor integration”! I deleted all apps to control/access respective vendor devices. I have HA to manage and control the variety of vendor devices in my home.
As others said, not lock in. But they certainly make some very questionable UX decisions. I wish there was a good replacement, but there isn’t, at least none that I am aware of.
You can make your own dashboard, I think it’s called Lovelace or something like that. Then you can pretty much design it how you want
There’s always OpenHAB
That’s not what lock-in typically means.
That’s not what lock-in means at all.
Lock in is more about open standards and protocols then it is about an opinionated implementation. Yes there is not simple “export to whatever” and an alternative service that dies an “import from home assistant”
But you cannot blame a service for not having any valid alternative or other options.
Its either 20 different vendor logins and apps or home assistant.
I used to have an app (and a login account to their cloud server) for my: 1) MyQ Garage Door Opener; 2) TP-Link smart plugs, switches, and bulbs; 3) Reolink AI cameras (I have 6 of them); 4) Insteon plugs and switches; 5) The Weather Channel; etc… Now, I have Home Assistant to manage those devices that I deleted my account from the respective cloud servers and deleted the respective apps from my mobile deives.
When I’m out and about, my iPhone is always connected to my home VPN gateway so I always have local control of my IoT devices at home with Home Assistant companion app on my iPhone. I have been with Home Assistant for 4 years now. I started with a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8Gig memory and HAOS in a mcroSD card. Now I’m on RPi5 with HA on SSD in a USB-3 enclosure.
Long Live Home Assistant.
What a giant waste of resources…
I’m sure the 5 seconds spent changing some text strings on their branding will be sorely missed
Yes because it definitely only took 5 seconds…
Let people have fun!
Not stopping anyone.
