What is Home Assistant and why do we use it?
Home Assistant is a powerful, open-source smart home platform designed to provide reliable, private, and highly customisable automation. At Nifty, we install and manage Home Assistant for our clients, ensuring a seamless and secure experience. While our customers can use the system to control their smart home, they cannot make direct edits, allowing us to maintain stability and security.
We choose Home Assistant because it is constantly evolving, with regular updates that introduce new features, enhance security, and improve performance. It has a large and active community that contributes to its development, ensuring ongoing innovation and support. Privacy is at the core of Home Assistant, with local control of data and an optional, secure cloud service for remote access.
One of its biggest strengths is its wide compatibility, supporting thousands of devices and services, making it one of the most flexible smart home platforms available. By using Home Assistant, we provide our clients with a secure, future-proof, and fully integrated smart home system that continues to grow and improve over time.
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