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What if we were just a lil evil? (piefed.alphapuggle.dev)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On totally unrelated news, I'm finding the my new ecobee to be pretty sweet. Supposedly it can be two stepped into homeassistant via Apple's webkit?

[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had heard good things for Ecobee, but at some point last year they shut down their developer registrations. Still 100% accessible through the HomeKit integration, but it didn't feel like a good move for them.

I ended up going with a Meross MTS300 to replace my Nest. It feels like the local-only smart thermostat market is pretty dry, so I gave them a shot. There's some 3rd party Home Assistant integration for it, which I actually saw a Meross dev offering up some internal docs in an issue so they could build better support. I thought was pretty chill of them. A much better attitude than "oh we don't support this platform officially, cease building for it". Supposedly it can operate entirely separately from their infra with some tweaks, but I've unfortunately ran out of weekend. Even without those tweaks it can operate without internet over Matter

Wouldn't recommend it personally yet until I have more time to find the quirks about it. In any case it's been significantly more reliable than my Nest ever was

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 points 22 hours ago

That's mostly the reason I went for them, trying as some back burner thing to get whatever appliances, lights cameras, etc all figured how I could do them fully in house. Not a huge priority, switches work just fine, but if I do set such things up the idea of it failing because of an Internet outage is a no-go