What do you guys think of the idea of smart homes? I could make a basic setup using https://home-assistant.io to control my home temperature and lighting; the tools for doing this are everywhere nowadays and implementation doesn’t seem too horrific anymore.

But setting aside what I “can” do, is this something that I “should” do? How can a person implement this without connecting any devices to the internet?

  • Hexarei@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, many of those problems are things you can mitigate by picking the right vendor and staying away from anything that needs to phone home or use the internet

    What’s stopping the company from just updating the software

    The fact that I buy zwave stuff designed never to connects to the internet

    And you can’t host your own servers either

    Home Assistant says otherwise