[$] Home Assistant: ten years of privacy-focused home automation
Many home-automation devices come with their own mobile app or cloudservice. However, using multiple apps or services isinconvenient, so it's (purposely) tempting to only buy devices from the samevendor, but this can lead to lock-in. One project that letsusers manage home-automation devices from various vendors without lock-inis Home Assistant. Over itsten-year existence, it has developed into a user-friendly home-automationplatform that caters to both technically inclined and less tech-savvypeople.