Awesome that’s good to hear, all my LEDs and stuff I have blocked to everything but HA at my firewall but some devices like my smart vacuum apparently NEED internet access to work at all which I was hoping it didn’t. My current doorbell needs it I think but hoping to get a new doorbell and camera when I move next year.

Are you able to have it blocked or limited from the greater internet and just comm with HA or does it need that as well.

I appreciate the look behind the curtain but since apple was found in a court to have deceived customers and was proven of wrong doing it certainly is a bit more than just the media blowing it out of proportion or Apple actually doing people a favor that was misinterpreted. For example 3 days a week I use a phone from 2018 that was my daily driver for 3 years and needed to use it as a backup MFA device that I also sometimes stream and watch media on for a few hours a day. Updated it to the latest LineageOS and haven’t had to worry about freezing or being slow or shutting off and corrupting my shit.

So much so that TFLClassics on YouTube in Colorado bought a well maintained model T and drove it to the nearest dealership and had mechanics there change the oil and take it for a spin just the other week.

It’s not even almost, in 2019 there was a settlement where they were found to literally be making older devices artificially slower once a newer model or two was out. Settlement sign ups ended in 2020, search Apple slowdown lawsuit.

I just tried in February but could be because of the protocol either Wayland or X11, I run 2 1440p 144hz monitors and I think Wayland struggles with that. Have had better luck with arch and KDE x11

I’m going AMD next as well, pop wouldn’t run games on my 3080, finally got some running on endeavourOS currently but pop and fedora had lots of issues.

Here’s mine, slowly been simplifying it. Now just have mushroom cards, hue like light cards and mini media player to control my most used devices. Plus I rent so don’t have a smart thermostat or other rain or garage sensors.

Can that easily stream HDR and things like Dolby vision? In research a while ago I thought it was only certain CPUs/GPUs and chrome could play things like Netflix at 4k/HDR

I believe this thinking is what the car companies are banking on too, assuming people see 3-4 screens means it’s more premium when I just screams the opposite to me and those I know.

Always has, May December, Maestro and They Cloned Tyrone premiered on Netflix this year, I think I’m forgetting another one. Plus plenty of comedy specials

Care to share any of the recommendations? I don’t use YouTube often but would be happy to visit and use an alternative

I just bought a U6 AP last week and I only have 4 WiFi 6 devices and wife and I got new phones this year so not going to have anything WiFi 7 for quite a while

Do they have a wireless one? I’ve only ever seen wired options but don’t know their product line super well

You can tweak noise supression and a few other settings

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/#tweaking-the-atom-echo-configuration

I got an atom echo 2 months ago and was so happy when the wale word was added as before having to press the button and having it tethered defeated the purpose in my opinion.

Using the echo I make sure it’s in the same room as me (on a USB portable charger) and I get maybe a second or two delay. My issue has been setting up custom sentences to control a media player volume, followed their example in the docs for a media player but no errors and no action.

I also have a handful of athom smart plugs but I went the ESPHome firmware route directly from their shop. Just connected to WiFi and HA picked them up immediately.

I haven’t dug into their policies or checked network traffic but I have a b0bsweep per hair slam and while I don’t believe it works with HA it maps my main floor and I was able to block it from public egress and put it on my subnet with DNS capture and filtering to a pihole and it has never once complained. Open the app and change a setting or click go and it does it. Haven’t tried adding it to HA yet because of that.

Yes the latest July release allows for voice assist over HTTP and internal access.

And HA blog has a post with a $13 mic which I bought and works but it needs to be plugged in and press a button to activate so rather limiting.

Dang I wonder what it could be then, I know turning that off helped a lot of pages load correctly for my install