It’s Benn Jordan, and I’d recommend visiting his channel directly.

It’s Benn Jordan, and I’d recommend visiting his channel directly.

It’s Benn Jordan, and I’d recommend visiting his channel directly.

Basically Organic Maps’ private owners planned to commercialize and make components of the application closed source. Very much not in the Open Source spirit that had been touted, for which many external contributors donated their time. So, those who actually gave a shit about being open source forked the project into CoMaps. That is why the two apps very much look the same, because they more or less are, aside from the intentions of their developers.

The only drawback is that most smart home devices aren’t on the UPS, so if power goes out, you still lose most connected devices.

I run many of the usual suspects, but I would say Home Assistant is on the top of the list.

• Integrates with seemingly endless smart home devices
• Make automations that make your house seem like magic
• Make it look just how you want it to
• and best of all, it costs numerous hours of tinkering nothing!