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Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

Decronym Bot , (edited ) to Selfhosted in Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HA Home Assistant automation software
~ High Availability
IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

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