r u ready to WALK posted:

"Home Automation" is a misnomer, it's almost never automated in any meaningful way. You're just making it harder to turn on your lightbulb by having to unlock your phone, open the correct app (separate apps for each device of course) and try to click on the tiny button that hopefully does what you want.

It's obviously superior compared to using the boring old lightswitch that's right there on the wall.

My favorite thing so far is collecting hundreds of useless stats about my house



OpenHAB pushes everything it knows about to InfluxDB because why not