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I don't get the fixation on wiretapping one's home for marginal convenience gains.

This blog post happens to use Echos to play the music. That's not the interesting part, though. Home Assistant and Node-RED are the cool bits, and they're completely local network services; no wiretapping required.

I've done a lot of automation using HA and Zigbee and Tasmota devices, and it's been awesome. I have no cloud I rely on for anything. When my Internet service goes down seemingly every night at 12:30am, I'm glad I can still control lights, alarms, etc.

You can also use a slightly modified version of these sub flows to mute all Alexas of which I do. I try to do everything local behind a firewall. There is just somethings like Spotify / speakers / mic that is really hard to do / very few products that work local only.

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