Tried to search in the community forum and also googling a lot around, but I don’t understood what I can do with the “Nabu Casa” account.
Did you try nabucasa.com ?
Nabu Casa is the company that @balloob created to take the payments for the Home Assistant Cloud.
Currently, the Home Assistant Cloud is for Alexa and Google Assistant Integration without needing to create your own. https://www.home-assistant.io/cloud/
That’s all you can really “do” right now. It’s just a way to simplify some of the integrations that already exist that you can do yourself.
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So, it’s the “software” that permit the auto Sync with Alexa/Google?
It’s a “hosted” version of what’s already in the Documents for Google Assistant and Alexa.
Instead of creating your own integration and maintaining it yourself, Nabu Casa maintains it.
It’s 100% optional as you can still do everything yourself. It just makes life easier. All the website is for is to enter in payments and your account credentials. Everything else is done from Home Assistant and from Google Assistant/Alexa.
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I recently updated my home assistant OS from 64.x to the latest version and have been exploring this topic. I find the $5 monthly fee for integrating home assistant OS with Google services a bit concerning. Given that Hass.io is open source and has a vibrant community contributing for free, I wonder why this important feature is offered as a paid option, especially as a subscription. While I understand the creators are looking to build a business around it, I’m curious about the added value they provide. Both home assistant OS development and Google Assistant services are largely free, so it raises questions about the sustainability of a business model based on this integration. Additionally, I wonder about the workload involved, considering it primarily serves as a bridge between Hass.io and Google Assistant services.
It’s a choice you can make. You can still use the free components. No one is forcing you to use the cloud
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Everything cost money. Cloudcomputers security, community and website hosting. Why should the someone take that from their own pocket to satisfy all yhe users? Compare with fex Prestashop, where every module cost much money. We have spent a couple of thousand to get our webshop working. Sofor me there is not a problem to pay the 5 usd. Its cheap. And the HA cloud will be used for much more in the near future.
But as someone said, you can still use everything without the 5 usd.
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Nothing is changing, you can still do all you google home stuff local and for free. You should read this
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It is NOT changing. You are free to setup a Google developer account and do all the job yourself. Cost 0 usd.
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I don’t think you’ve read any of the information out there regarding this.
You’re wrong on practically everything you’ve said.
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