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Has anyone noticed Alexa / Hue being super buggy in the last week. Very delayed, complaining about hue devices offline, etc. Is it related?

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Recently switched to Home Assistant to control all my Hue locally along with a bunch of other devices. It was a pain in the beginning and I was cursing HA. 2 weeks later, I love it.

You’ll be cursing HA off and on for as long as you use it. The local control angle is the right one (Apple’s HomeKit is also local for its devices and its great, I wish they’d invest more in it).

The breaking changes in HA are out of control, every release is a dozen or more - a good chance at least one integration you use will have a breaking change every time you update.

If you wait too long to upgrade it’ll just implode.

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