I honestly feel like smart homes are getting worse each year for me. Now even Hue is an unreliable and unnecessarily frustrating experience. The only actual improvement in my setup has been that the IKEA Dirigera hub is now a solid improvement but some Hue stuff doesn’t work with it.

On the other hand some manufacturers are now actively fighting home assistant and the matter switch is non existent. A total zero number of devices in my home run over matter, something that I didn’t expect given the huge amount of excitement early on.

It feels like rather than everything slowly converging I now run two hubs still, custom smart home apps, a largely unreliable and useless home assistant next to some things with HomeKit.

I really can’t stand it and I’m incredibly frustrated by it.