bazingabot

Awesome. I went dyndns, port forward to wireguard on my router. Works wonderfully on my phone since years ... allows btw also for using your pihole on the phone when on the go.

Or...if you know how it works...setup a vpn, install homeassistant on your Raspberry Pi at home, connect your hue bulbs to a Zigbee stick and you circumvent all this Philips account spying nonsense

If you have a Google Pixel phone then install grapheneos and all becomes a "can" from a "must"

This process took for me a year or so...but now I am finally there. 3 protonmail accts and nothing else.

One for personal/family/bank/official/insurance One for everything which I need longer...e.g. Logins to webpages One for online shopping/tickets...this one I delete every 12 months and create new, because here annoying spam from vendors is piling up

Aaaah, I love grapheneos!!

Berlin!!!!

I rather would have a device that is not as locked down and bloated as Samsung's to run grapheneos

https://lemmy.ml/post/17041065

Just saying

Oooooor you could just use 'ping' in HA and check whether the IP address of your phone is up in your local network. If so, have an automation in HA with lights and stuff...I am using this method since 5 years..works well. The only thing that you need to do is to fix an IP address in your router to the mac address of your phone.

This also means that a corrupt politician who actively pushes for surveilling EU citizens stays for another 4 years. Not my representative, democracy failed again from my point of view.