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Home Assistant will create a device database (www.home-assistant.io)
submitted 4 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I'm choosing devices based on how good they work with zha and HA and usually have to browse a bit before settling for something. If they manage to implement this properly, I'm all here for it.

Maybe they should talk to the zigbee device compatibility repository people (or maybe they already have).

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[-] performation@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago

I like it. However, as someone who likes to try out stuff from Ali biggest hurdle will be to identify the devices in the first place.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

I hope that maybe this database will also help with that... if you can't identify it, it'll have less representation, so it won't be bought... and the quality vendors will start to shine through.

[-] eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

And then to reliably differentiate them if they do some kind of revision upgrade. And for another user to identify whether the device they are thinking about buying is a particular one in the home assistant database; given how many sellers resell the exact same thing under different names.

:P

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