No internet for my Smart Home! What still works?

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It would be really great if all electronic products would carry a label indicating: a) registration required; b) fully functional without internet; c) limitations when not registered; d) limitations when not connected to the internet; e) fully functional if service provider (or their servers) are out of business.

Don’t replace your tuya hardware devices. Instead, replace the HA integration with localtuya integration. It uses the same hardware just a different integration.

We shouldn't have to rely on some YT influencer to know if a product advertised functionality requires an internet connection or work on such and such platform. Manufacturers should be required, through some consumer support law, to easily provide the information. I am fed up to be deceived by manufacturers AND reviewers avoiding to be explicit in their product reviews either because of laziness, incompetency or bad faith to avoid losing access to manufacturers and affiliated link revenues.

Ooh the zigbee!

2:49 make sure the automation in Home Assistant has continue_on_error: true or any device it can't speak to will halt all of the automation. That needs to be added on every single service call in the automation

This is very encouraging how much continued to work considering more thieves have been wifi jamming before they go in. You'd still need a hard connection, though, which is difficult for me to do as a renter

new video means a good day!

For the ecobee thermostat, you can set up the HomeKit integration in Home Assistant to communicate with it through that protocol rather than the cloud-based integration. If you still want to use the Apple Home app on your devices, you can also set up a HomeKit bridge through Home Assistant and choose to only have the thermostat to go through (or any device of your choosing)

The robo vacuum needs a switch-bot button on it for back up. Maybe move the Rachio sprinkler operation to a Pico W, that would be a fun video project. I am trying to convince my wife that we need a Starlink Mini for hurricane season here in Florida so she can stream her videos (and of course other HA things). Maybe a T-Mobil $20 a month cell account which has unlimited data for backup (at least for your alarm system). So many options. I have my Cloud services down to 2 services, one is the alarm so that is not going anywhere. Great video! Leggo's OUCH!

So one of the first things I did, when I was financially able to, was to put anything relating to home internet (the modem, router & satellites for router) on battery backups. Even if the power is only out for a moment or two, with no interruption to the main router/wifi setup I'm not having to wait to reboot everything - which is something I loathe having to do. Using an advanced Netgear Orbi mesh wifi system and lately, after a firmware update, if the power gets interrupted the satellites have a terrible time reconnecting.

Pretty cool to see how much having local connections works even without wifi!

Ok we need a body bag count and survivor tally ... 😂

Tried this on my setup after your video, and everything works without internet, every light, motion & contact sensor, all my zigbee devices, air purifiers, even the vacuum worked. The only missing things were some integration that rely on internet for my dashboard, such as spotify, or the weather. Other than that, my entire floorplan dashboard was working. I'm so glad to see that I have a resilient setup !

My golden rule for smart-home equipment is only one thing: Local only, so no cloud-bullshit for it to work. My HA is in a seperate VLAN, and HA only has internet access for certain things. The rest of the network is denied internet or inter-VLAN access.

My Ecowitt weather station and my DIY sprinkler controller work without internet. The sprinkler controller is just an ESP32 and a relay board using ESPHome and cost me about $20.00.

I block most of my smart devices from the internet with my Unifi dream machine and control them via home assistant. The only smart devices I allow to access the internet are my ecovacs vacuums and Nest thermostats. One day they will be replaced with locally controlled options.

Never seen a guy so excited turning on/off lights haha Home assistant gets more attractive with every vid

I'm at the point these days were I just don't want to buy anything that will be useless if the company goes out of business or shuts the servers down. I had made a few purchase for products that will probably be complete bricks in the future and I reg. Have a pair of nest audio speakers that don't have any headphone jack or anything. Hell even the echo dots don't have a headphone jack anymore although I guess they probably have Bluetooth chips so they will have a little value.

The fact that you have HA, gave me some hope that some thing would be working, but still too many things that are not working.