• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlOP
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    1 year ago

    An old phone plugged into a car or left on top of a cupboard is still a phone. It has Bluetooth capabilities, Google Assistant, GPS for use in cars, the list goes on. People use them as wall interfaces for IoT interfaces, so why can’t you just run Home Assistant on them directly?

    Plus, phones provide cellular data and actual phone calls, something that’s very expensive to plug into a raspberry pi or comparable micro server.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I have a couple rooted Android 4 phones that I could use but they would be rather slow and have security vulnerabilities. Unless someone makes a custom ROM for the obscure models I have, these problems won’t go away.