due to regular air pollution in the area where i live, i had to buy a couple of air purifiers 2 years ago. those happened to be xiaomi, which had "chinese" auto settings with too high particle ppms to my liking and no possibility to automate it manually (they had it for china, but not europe)
so very soon i ended up with HA on my rpi - yes, the learning curve was quite steep, but my automations just work for years since the initial setup
since then my 'iot infrastructure' has also grown quite a bit, driving me through even more rabbit holes with zigbee2mqtt presence detectors, lighting etc
the only thing that now worries me a bit (in the light of covid etc) is that noone from my family will be able to support all this stuff if anything happens to me, so i have to be careful to design the workflows to fail gracefully and leave the possibility of just plain old manual control if stuff dies
so very soon i ended up with HA on my rpi - yes, the learning curve was quite steep, but my automations just work for years since the initial setup
since then my 'iot infrastructure' has also grown quite a bit, driving me through even more rabbit holes with zigbee2mqtt presence detectors, lighting etc
the only thing that now worries me a bit (in the light of covid etc) is that noone from my family will be able to support all this stuff if anything happens to me, so i have to be careful to design the workflows to fail gracefully and leave the possibility of just plain old manual control if stuff dies