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I have a (mostly) DYI smart-home, I mean, DYI as in "a Frankenstein of vendors and devices glued together by Zigbee, MQTT and Home Assistant", with some hard-deps on it in a couple of rooms and that gave me some bad nights when thinking about "what if I sell the home one day?" but reading the threads here I feel reassured: they will probably just rip it away and put some low-tech solution and call it a day.


Is it possible to rip off the devices and use it at your new location?


By the time you sell they’re likely all scrap value or worse, and the time to remove would be more than the cost to buy new.


most of them, totally. The issue is that in some room there is no way to control directly the power to the bulbs, they are always on and you can switch them off only from central electric panel (because they are all zigbee bulbs)




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