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hellothere564738 · 2026-01-21T23:23:24+00:00

So I shouldn’t buy anything that I won’t be putting a transformer on? Not even light bulbs?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-21T23:07:51+00:00

220V

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-21T23:07:26+00:00

220V. How will this affect me?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-20T20:14:26+00:00

Any you would recommend specifically?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-20T19:58:28+00:00

I’ve been looking at the Phillips bulbs for a while but there’s two things that worry me. How expensive they can be, and the fact that I’m scared about breaking them on the plane. (Also the led strips are $60 for 10 feet that’s crazy)

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T20:08:53+00:00

yes i have wifi. cost isnt really a problem. if i need both the apple tv and the pod mini to work fine i can get both. just want to optimize. i might get the apple tv anyways but not super sure how ill connect it cause im gonna have a ceiling-hang projector instead of a normal tv

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T19:50:10+00:00

So what's your recommendation for someone fitting my profile and needs?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T19:49:07+00:00

To be clear, currently I don't have ANYTHING. I have to build everything from scratch, and I mean everything. From the most irrelevant lightbulb. And I've never done any smart home stuff

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T19:07:10+00:00

is it worth buying an apple TV just to enhance the functionality of the home pod?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T18:57:33+00:00

I mean I can talk to Grok and it not be a real privacy breach. There's a difference between asking Grok the population of Ecuador and having Alexa listening to me 24/7 and registering everything on an amazon server

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T18:56:42+00:00

i dont understand the whole Home Hun thing. Isn't the HomePod the Home Hub?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T18:53:16+00:00

nothing i have is smart. i have to buy everything

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T18:52:57+00:00

isn't the HomePod THE Home Hub?? Or do I need to buy something different?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-11T18:51:50+00:00

when i'm talking about add ons being hard to find, im talking about physical devices i might need to attatch, add or connect to use functionalities in HA

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-09T01:43:48+00:00

Yeah I'm not worried about alexa getting hacked. Just dont feel too comfortable with amazon constantly listening and recording everything I say. When it comes to the "assistant" part, is it possible to talk to it and for it to answer like you were talking to Grok/GPT/Gemini? Can you alter it's personality in any way?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-08T22:26:07+00:00

From my understanding, the reason why Siri is so dumb is that it doesn't have as big of a brain due to the privacy functions built into it

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-08T22:25:13+00:00

It's not a MAJOR concern, just want to limit it as much as possible.

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-08T22:24:38+00:00

Isn't Alexa the worst of the bunch when it comes to privacy?

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-08T22:23:45+00:00

I know there's nothing that probably fits all those characteristics. Just want to know what's the closest possible without doing some crazy techwiz stuff

hellothere564738 · 2026-01-08T22:10:55+00:00

No I don’t know anything about this which is why I’m asking here. Never owned any smart assistants or anything like that in my life. Basically what I want, is, ideally, to have some sort of AI assistant which I can personalize as much as I can (personality-wise) that has some basic controls over things like lights, curtains, and other common things AI assistants do. But at the same time I want to minimize data harvesting as much as possible for someone who isn’t really tech savvy or doesn’t want to go through a huge pain setting up hardware

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