Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 2 days agoLights are one of the areas where I think automation is genuinely useful, but my rule with anything “Smart” is that it has to be able to run 100% locally.
cynar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It also needs to fail gracefully. A smart switch needs to fail to a dumb switch, not “no switch”.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
and retire gracefully, where the device becomes open source and available to the community of owners who have invested in it.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
You’re absolutely correct. I have few smart switches around the house and automations for yard lights and stuff like that are pretty nice to have but I still have the physical switch where the dumb switch was to interact with if the automations are down or I just want to override them. The ones I use even accept the same faceplate than traditional ones so there’s no change on anything unless you want to automate things.