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sowbugyesterday at 5:14 PM1 replyview on HN

We've been shopping for a simple bathroom clock to replace our final Amazon Echo and leave that increasingly dystopian ecosystem. There are some models that use Bluetooth on your phone to sync the time. I could imagine BLE being a good low-power and relatively stateless solution. But given our goals, we're not going to install an app on a phone just to maintain a wall clock. (I'd be fine if Android provided BLE time sync as a built-in service.)


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russdillyesterday at 5:39 PM

Home assistant has pretty good BLE capabilities. But honestly, as has already been pointed out wifi is already really cheap.