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TL;DR : How would you 'smart home' with privacy?

How would you go about a privacy focused home automation/smart home setup?

What I feel is not necessarily important

> some assistant that you can have conversations with.
> Not being in home network to automate.

What I feel is essential. (in decreasing order of importance)

> Being a able to control appliances/electronics with voice/app (optional gesture)
> Have features to automate stuff, like turn on something if something happens (IFTTTish)
> Easily play music from Spotify or something similar, e.g. " * Play some Tchaikovsky."
> Simple alarm and reminder features.

So far I have seen relays and other devices that you add in the wiring and they connect to wifi. They work surprisingly well, but whatever I came across also collects personal user data.

Also not aware of any google home and alexa alternative that can so seamlessly pick up commands through ambient noise.

What are your thoughts and views?

P. S. I would have picked up something like this as my side project, but I don't see my self having that much free time atleast for the next 4-5 months.

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  • 2
    Well you can wait like half a year, I'm actually working on a project like this 😂😅 and it's something that going to be completely driven on a hub (raspi or whatever you want) in your own home, so not chance of data collection
  • 0
    Not just posting that as a shameless plug, but would love to hear if you have any more ideas, about what requirements you'd have for such a system?
  • 0
    @theKarlisK yes that's exactly what I want, also I just love the of open source, and how you can download something, run it on your own, and thereby tweak it exactly the way you want it, and not be locked by what the 'manufacturerer' has made
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    @theKarlisK the last point you made, is exactly what started me on the path to making this project. I have a colleague who loves home automation, but doesn't know programming or electrical engineering, so he has a bunch of different apps for it
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