• APassenger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Need? No, of course not. But it simplifies an assortment of things and once Matter is more broadly adopted, setting things up fully local will be a massive improvement and future-proofing.

    The big players are signaling that they are not making money on voice, so I’m expecting them to start charging or give up (typical Google answer).

    A few of my use cases:

    • Litter robot is in error or offline state for 30 minutes, toggle power
    • Easing of light intensity and color as sun sets daily
    • Vacuum when we’re gone and it’s between allowed hours.
    • Return vacuum to hub when we return home
    • Turn on lights so vacuum can “see”
    • Improved environmental control because I have better presence detection using HA than Nest.
    • Turn off power for cable box if conditions are met (otherwise it’s nightly updates and reboot illuminate the bedroom at 3 AM.
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      1 year ago

      I thought litter robot was great, unfortunately the larger of my two cats does not. Unfortunately he decided that he does not like them only AFTER we bought a second one, and AFTER the 90 day trial period expired.