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by astone 3020 days ago
I was looking for this. Cloud dependencies are a dealbreaker for me when it comes to home automation. I guess the alternative is to have hardware capable of doing the cloud work on your internal network.
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I have a refurbished HP tower ("only" 2 GHz and 16GB ram) running Home Assistant, an MQTT bridge for my SmartThings hub (so I can use it as a dumb z-wave radio), Plex, and whatever else I feel like using it for.

It cost $300 I think. That's about the same price as the Google WiFi 3-pack. /shrug