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Pfft, most of my home is smart, but because I'm actually an IT professional none of my smart devices are allowed to call home unless I explicitly allow them to (for firmware updates). The only thing they're allowed to talk to is my homeassistant server.
This meme is always dumb when it comes around, many of us with skills can pull off a smart home without resorting to "the cloud(s)" even if it means building our own IoT devices.
Do I trust Ring? Fuck no! Do I trust the camera doorbell I built and wrote the code with my own 2 hands and knows what it's doing with every byte of data? Tentatively.
I'm taking things a step further and building a HAL9000 system for my house. This time with 15% less mental illness.
LMAO same, just picked up dual 3090s for a good deal for my AI smart home ambitions
Though, I'm calling it XANA...I'm sure nothing will go wrong with our chosen system names haha
Whatever you say Waldo Schaeffer
I never understood why you would want anything connected to the cloud. Like if the central server goes down, you just can't turn on the lights or open your garage door? Why do people install that garbage? It's not even really automated, you're just using your voice or your phone to turn it off and on.
Tons of my house is automated, and everything I have can still be used without an Internet connection.
Like I said, none of my smart devices have an Internet connection unless I explicitly allow them to have one, and Homeassistant is hosted on my own hardware.
Yeah, I was agreeing with you. That's the only way to do it.
Someone that has a homeassistant server absolutely automates their devices.
I can walk over to the switch and turn my lights on fine without internet, which in the rural area I live, happens quite often. The same with my thermostat, no net? Change it at the thermostat. The only thing I am missing when the net goes out is my schedules.