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With HomeAssistant, what is really use for Homebridge? Seems like it’s a stepping towards HA, and everyone upgrades eventually.

You get a no-nerdy interface to automate your smart home prebaked in every iPhone and tablet, and people don’t need to install anything.

I haven't used homebridge, but have used HA in the past when I had lights and things hooked up. The UX and configuration surface always felt janky to me. So many little paper cut annoyances across every control / window / menu that you touch. The screenshots of homebridge seem much better at a cursory glance - if so, that's a net gain.

I use it to enable voice control (turn on the coffee machine), quick actions on iOS devices and for the simpler and faster Home ui for basic controls.

It’s also handy in that you get remote access with no extra port forwarding.


Please do! This is very original and maybe most interesting conceptualisation in this thread.

The chat does not work on mobile /tablet

It’s in colour if you have a computer

For two months.


The discussion about Claude always omit the important context - which language/platform you’re using it for. It is best trained for web languages and has most up to date knowledge for that. If you use it for Swift it is trained on whole landfill of code and that gives you strong bias towards pre-Swift 6 coding output. Imagine you would give Claude a requirements for a web app, and it implements it all in JQuery. That’s what happens with other platforms.

It’s not ommited, OP clearly talks about editing Javascript.

What is IYKYK ? If you know you know?

IYKYK

yeah

The author of website will be flooded with submissions about almost every known brand. Instead of ledger of bad brands it should track brands that remain, - it will be a lot easier and less work.


I'll make this my new source of truth. Thank you!!!

But what does that entail?


From the title I thought it’s about a dead man’s switch.


I thought it was about replicating a mossad supply chain attack.


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