I see, not as far as I’m aware. Cool idea though, the hass UI can be a bit limiting sometimes. I’d love to see a workflow view of different automations (automation management in Hass is pretty poor IMO)

I think you want something like Hass configurator?

In my previous house, the v1 prototype was wired straight to the boiler as there was no previous thermostat. In the current house, the v2 is wired to the Honeywell, so one can override the other as they are in parallel.

It was pretty finnicky stuff and I had to scour the internet for decade old wiring guides, but I like that sort of thing so it was good fun.

Every solution is a good solution if it makes your life easy and you have fun installing it!

My setup is a bit different but I had a lot of fun putting it together. I have a D1 mini with a switch hat wired into the boiler.

The D1 runs a tiny web server that lets me turn the heating on and off. Then I have a bunch of ZigBee thermostats around the house that provide a fuzzy average temperature.

Then I have a custom dash in hass that displays pretty much what a hive would display.

Whole setup cost about $20 and has been running nonstop for over 5 years!

There’s already a for HA that covers the use case where your hue bulbs operate entirely through voice assistants.

I’m hoping this sees expansion into a fully fledged replacement for the physical Phillips hub in the future.

I’ve been using portainer for this and really like it. It does tether you into using docker images but that’s not really a bad thing nowadays.

This doesn’t meet your criteria for not phoning home, but still worth sharing: I use Logitech Harmony Hub and find the experience of using it with Hass to be excellent.

Harmony is really good at onboarding devices and has a huge library of supported devices, but the interface for using them is awful. Hass makes it much easier to build simple multi-device remotes, and to create nice automations. (Harmony’s version of this is utterly useless)

You also get a nice physical remote to use with it too, which I’m personally not interested in but the less technical members of my family love it.

Worth considering I think. You can always block the phoning home using Pi-hole, as I have.

Welp

I guess the question is: what are you generating where this is a possibility of overlap within the de facto resolution? I can’t see filesystem writes needing this level of (nanosecond) accuracy within my lifetime, but happy to be corrected.

Feels borderline YAGNI, but also curious if there are real usecases for this. If there are I expect they are related to low level build activities and not high level I/O operations.

Upstream costs are indeed going up as you implied, and Namecheap has razor thin margins.

Part of the deal with services providing bare-minimum prices is that the consumer takes on supplier costs when they arise. Same in all thin-margin businesses.