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  • in a nutshell

    This is how the control and information exchange of smart devices work:

    Phone App -> [Server] … [Server] -> Smart Device and vice versa

    There’s no way around this concept.

    Now, Google gives you the phone app and the (public) server part. but these only work with their servers and apps, keeping you locked in.

    HA gives you the same, a server and an app, but allows you to keep the server private (access via vpn for public)

    Also who guarantees that Google Home will be there in the next few years? HA will still keep running even if it ever gets abandoned.


  • Authelia is meant to be an SSO (like Google). In order to use it, you have to create users (and passwords) within the authelia yaml file, or connect it to light-ldap and do it via ldaps web gui.

    You probably have other services running, i.e. immich, etc. These can be configured to use auhelias OIDC to authenticate the user against. you’d still need to create the users within the service, since I doubt they get auto-created.

    Now, you can decide for yourself, whether to put your bitwarden behind authelia or not, and I’m not sure how the mobile apps work in this sense, if at all.

    If you decide to do so, you just give your users their authelia/lightldap creds, if not, you additionally have to give them their bitwarden creds.








  • I’m sure if I dig deep enough, I might find threads like these for any hardware.

    Just look at Apple. Their MacBook lineup has been a mess since 2016, and they are a “reputable” and overpriced non-aliexpress company.

    And yes, you’re fucked if you buy something from Ali and it turns out faulty. But you’re also fucked if you buy second-hand. The risk of loss is equal.




  • name a feature…

    No need to, they both have their place for sure… I don’t know their features, and I probably don’t even use most of them. but openwrt is solid enough for potato hardware, whereas opnsense is not. Also, my point was to show that both operating systems run on the aliexpress hardware, counteracting your claim that some systems don’t boot.