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How to build a privacy-first home assistant hub that keeps zigbee and zwave devices offline but still runs voice automation

I’ve been building privacy-first smart home setups for years, and one pattern keeps coming back: you can have tightly integrated Zigbee and Z-Wave devices without handing control or metadata to a cloud service — including voice control. In this guide I’ll walk you through how I build a home...

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How to build a privacy-first home assistant hub that keeps zigbee and zwave devices offline but still runs voice automation

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