I came up with a domain just for my simplelogin addresses. I see no reason not to unless you don’t want to pay for a second domain.

Which government? I don’t want the US to do it anymore.

That might be good for phones, but it seems like they want one of the external tracker devices. Those are only good if you have a large network of people locating items (unless you just want to find things in your house)

It might be worth looking at the devices, but some of the ring stuff is ZigBee/wave (not sure which) and will play reasonably well with home assistant. This might offer some reuse of the equipment.

Edit: wait, no. I’m thinking of something else. Not ring.

No, I was right the first time. Older stuff usually, and of course not wifi.

https://github.com/ImSorryButWho/HomeAssistantNotes/blob/main/RingKeypadV2.md

Do streaming services still work with this setup?

It looks like it uses chrome for certain data, and I’m not a fan of that. Any idea if I can change that to use Firefox?

Oof, purchased by an analytics company probably means they only want it for your/my information.

I’m trying one of the Dev releases that was linked below. So far it’s pretty stable. Not sure your tolerance for any issues that may arise.

Oh sweet! Thanks for the heads up! I was hoping to find a version 14 without having to figure out how to build it myself.

I took a peek into their telegram feed and it seems they’re working on version 14.

Lawnchair hasn’t had a release since 2018. I find it to be a bit buggy and sometimes won’t redraw the home screens. This makes me need to force close the launcher from the settings. I usually clear the cache too, just to be safe.

Just tempering expectations for anyone else looking at it. If anyone knows of a fork that is more recent let me know. Maybe someone else is maintaining somewhere.

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I agree, but it is definitely on the spendy side

Yes, but at the same time no.

If you’re into self hosting there’s also Baby Buddy

Looks promising! Thanks for the recommendation, even though I didn’t notice the original post eat very old.

It looks great! Ufortunately for me, without traffic and construction information (road closures) it becomes almost unusable.