Yeah, I’ve been planning to set up a smart light switch in my kitchen and if/when I eventually get to that I’ll be setting up a home assistant install on a little thin client and using ZigBee instead of a WiFi device directly connected to google home. That way I can start to play with automation in haos and start connecting all of my existing wifi devices through haos on my own hardware.

I’d like to transition everything to offline protocols running locally, its just kind of a project and takes money. A while back I was doing my research for it and I think I decided on hardware, but haven’t gotten further than that, I just kinda have too many expenses and projects on my plate for the moment

I’m looking forward to all the tech stuff I depend on being actually my own in the future though :)