Ich bin die Maschine
Knossos
That's great. I recently got a pet feeder from them. My main criteria was that it works with ZigBee and home assistant.
Every other I have tried ends up failing with communication with their back ends, inevitably leading to a piece of unmaintainable trash.
Aqara worked immediately out of the box. Connected to my home assistant within minutes.
Wait 5 seconds to enjoy the scenery.
Anyway, like I thought earlier. I should definitely solve the puzzle like this.
I switched to Immich and will never look back.
“This is my very special extra long salute I reserve for the especially important, sir.”
The benefit is also it's curse. It's all open, so there can be a bunch of names and a bunch of apps. Nobody agrees what the best app is.
But once you get your own ecosystem set up, it is amazing.
Which is a huge hurdle for new people 😬
Something doesn't work in a particular piece of software. "Don't they test their program?". "All they need to do is X, obviously they don't know how to code!".
Sometimes it isn't as easy as you think.
My son gets to leave the hospital.
"We are talking Jape of the Decade. We are talking April, May, June, July, and August Fool."
Airplane!