Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the “smart” appliances don’t work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a “0” as return value when asking for the preferred temperature…
There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.
It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.
If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain mobile data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.
Dream on, meanwhile the world will be buying $8 cloud connected “smart switches” because they’re the cheapest, easiest to install things out there and even grandma is able to say “hey Alexa, turn on the coffee maker” and make it work.
Joke’s on them. My coffee maker has a physical button!
It’s not that far off. I woke up to an Internet outage and none of my home lighting routines fired off and I couldn’t control my lights via wifi. I got it under control shifting to Bluetooth but for a second it was infuriating.
the fact that your home network setup for this relies on an internet connection is baffling
Games that require persistent internet are baffling to me… I mean the hitman games cannot store your mission achievements offline…
But games are games… if my stove and fridge and showers (fucking showers with wifi?) Need internet connectivity than that is bullshit. They are being too fucking optimistic about everything.
Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun.
Games like that are also baffling to me, thankfully I’ve not purchased one but I would return it as soon as I discovered the limitation if that were to happen
Was getting up and turning on the light switch not an option?
Never.
Sounds like someone needs HomeAssistant…
Mostly they need to move to Zigbee/Matter or similar.
I had about a dozen WeMo devices controlling various stuff around the house, they just accumulated over the years. About a year ago, I “got serious” and ripped out all the cloud connected stuff and setup a Zigbee based Home Assistant system. It’s about 5x more capable than the old hodge podge of cloud devices, much lower lag, much better management capabilities, and when the internet connection goes down, it still works. The cloud devices would take long coffee breaks about twice a year.
God, so many things gone wrong there. At least they could use “30” as the default value, right???
at least its not -254
That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)
well considering it controls a heat exchanger device it can only break you
Hey, I could at least observe superconductors at home!
at least its not -254
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 days ago
This is why Home Assistant exists.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Of course. But 99% of the population is either too lazy or to dumb for that, or such problems would not exist.
melfie@lemy.lol 2 days ago
Nudges an unopened box of Zigbee door sensors ordered 2 years ago to the back of the shelf.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 days ago
Resist the temptation, hundreds of hours will be lost down that rabbithole after you start.
Though, it is kinda cool stuff, when it’s working.
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 day ago
99% of the population doesn’t have IOT in their houses