Best of hackernews on Home Assistant

2024-12-09

I'd recommend ditching any proprietary hubs and getting a Zigbee dongle instead [...] I've also gone the Zigbee2MQTT (ZQM) route

After Philips Hue required that I make an online account with them and wouldn't let me use my local-only devices without it, I [...] unceremoniously threw away my hue bridge. Zigbee2MQTT is working great.

If the hue app works for you then don't switch. You'll spend days learning and configuring everything and in the end it will not work reliably anyway.

I've replaced all of HA with just some Python interacting with an MQTT server. I just script all the automation and don't have to care about the other 90% of what HomeAssistant brings to the table.

AppDaemon or Pyscript [...] let you use HA's massive library of supported devices, but you don't need to bother with their YAML "programming" horrorshow.

These were collected from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358358.