Yeah, 100% a whole separate post on its own. If you ask the same question in a new post, you’ll get more visibility and more answers

What ever happened to Mike Lindel - the MyPillow guy?

Heating systems in Europe are unique and have a variety of hardware and software requirements that make it challenging to build for the diverse set of homes

AKA. Europe probably has hardware and software requirements that make it so Google can’t

A) Harvest your data; and/or B) Must be able to function without an internet connection (aka. they can’t kill it)

Credit where credit is due - I really hope Trump starts seeing the light from this point forwards

Hold up. Let me get this straight - Synology is trying to make their NASs only work with their own proprietary hard drives? Do they not realize that there are boat loads of other companies out there making NASs and Hard Drives?

Who the hell is going to want to buy a Synology NAS now? Ffs, some of these companies are so delusional…

I fully agree - home assistant is the way to go, even if it’s a little more complicated.

It’s much easier to add / remove / replace hubs as needed. A few years ago I switched my main hub from Alexa to HA. Then, a month or two ago, I decided to move away from Alexa due to the speech to text recognition noticeably degrading, they removed features (I forget what the feature was, it was a while ago), and recent policy changes. Super easy to disconnect and switch to a different assistant like Siri / HomeKit.