I revived old smart home devices with Home Assistant - here's how it went
Home Assistant is an effecient command central to put your old smart home devices along with the new to control them together.
I rode the first wave of smart home devices but immediately quit when I learned that smart speakers record my talks (and snores). For far too long, I've treated those smart lights and smart TVs as dumb devices. That recently changed when I discovered how my esteemed colleague, Adam Conway, used Home Assistant with Zigbee to set up smart home automation in his home. The premise of using software to automate all kinds of smart devices without any expensive hardware sounds amazing!
