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If you're interested, you can recreate the work he did in a fraction of the time.

https://home-assistant.io/

It's not voice centric like 'jarvis' would be, but it bridges most of the existing smart devices that exist right now and let's you do a plethora of many more things than 'jarvis' does. You can for example add gps tracking to your phone and have it control your thermostat for when you're close to home, or turn on the the lights at sundown and you're home, or you can program it to shut off the light when something is playing on the chromecast, etc. It supports alexa skills as well, so you can have that be a trigger for whatever you need done.

Hass's oobe is basically just a dashboard for your smart devices, but with some tinkering you can set up rules and customize it for your personal needs.



But where's the fun in that.

Edit: Tried the demo, it does look pretty sleek admittedly.


OpenHAB is way more robust IMO


Would you mind elaborating? What makes OpenHAB more robust?




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