This has been my impetus to do Home Assistant things and I already can tell you that I'm going to spend far more time setting it up and tweaking it than I actually save, but false economy is a tinkerer's best friend. It's pretty impressive what a local LLM setup can do though, and I'm learning that all my existing smart devices are trivially available if anyone gets physical access to my network I guess!
This is the kind of thing Claude Code (bypassing permissions) shines at. I‘m about to setup HA myself and intend to not write a single line of config myself.
Something I love about HA is that all thr gui can always be directly edited using yaml. So you can ask claude for a v1 then tweak it a bit then finish with the gui. And all of this directly from the gui.
