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Cloud services for controlling things inside your house are the worst (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by besmtt@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I recently moved away from MyQ to local control of my garage door and I've been loving it. I stumbled across the linked issue where MyQ shit the bed for roughly 3 days and it just confirms to me that the extra effort to move away from a cloud service was worth it. I'm down to just one last cloud service for something inside my house. My mind is pretty much made up that if I can't accomplish it locally, I won't do/use it.

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

local control of my garage door

This is wild. I never imagined I'd even need to control a garage door remotely o.O

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it adds some reassurance if my garage door is closed while I'm away

[–] qupada@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I've definitely forgotten to close mine once or twice, even though my custom (LoRa) integration is just simulating pushing the button on the wall by closing a relay contact and watching for closed status with a reed switch, it means I can do it from anywhere.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, my IoT network is segregated from any of my regular network. The control node can be accessed by VPN but otherwise has no access to or from the internet

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's my setup too!