Editing Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour & 28 minute presentation by FUTO software (section)

== What is Home Assistant? ==

Home Assistant allows you to control everything from your lights to your air conditioner to your car’s remote start, all within an open-source system that YOU control! It is a system that works with plugins developed by open-source devs around the world who are just as frustrated as you are that the smart home future we were promised is chock full of spyware, subscriptions, and enshittification. We’re going to be using this to adjust an air conditioner’s temperature, so if we’re going to be home early, we can tell it to turn on remotely a little earlier without allowing the A/C to connect to the internet, and also for getting alerts when someone walks by one of our security cameras.

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