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So to give you a run down, I feel this board was heavily into Wink/Smartthings automation for the past years. and with Wink basically folding and the heavy smartthings users looking for more control, HA has started to be talked about more and more.

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Yeah I started with SmartThings due to a friends recommendation. I hade it for a couple months and it drove me insane with the layout and limited capabilities. I was digging around on my unRaid box and saw this Home Assistant thing in the app store. Mashed install and I had this interface looking at me. It even found tons of stuff from Google Homes, Rokus, printer, etc all by itself. I could even make my Google Homes talk by just clicking them. The rest was history... it quickly changed from with SmartThings of "I wish I could do this..." then with HA it was "What?!? You can really do that?"

It has definitely come a long way in the past year or two. Stuff is so much easier to do now, mostly just doing GUI stuff.

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Nice! Welcome! I hope your family made it out of Laura safely. My brother lives over there and when i drove in that afternoon, man it was rough.

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Thanks! I do have to admit, I had someone ping me about this thread. Always cool to jump into various threads and such and interact with folks.

I did pull the NVR footage from that camera setup and it stayed up about 45 minutes after power died. Pretty crazy stuff at 2am that night.

I thought the Lake Charles area was considered Texas?