I suspect the average smart home is not based on home assistant, but on an ikea hub with their app, or similar.

If you are willing to selfhost a home assistant, then it is not a barrier to add various antennas to it.

So this step to standardization might help mixing different manufacturer products easier. We will see how standard their implementations will be. We had zigbee as shared standard in theory what only worked properly with the manufacturers hub.

I was curious, whats the purpose of it? The vps host should have some redundancy in case of hardware failure. Is it for user error if I accidentally delete my server?

I’m thinking about self hosting my photo library, do I have to keep it up-to-date constantly to keep compatibility with the android app?