Was getting up and turning on the light switch not an option?
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Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt’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.
cevn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like someone needs HomeAssistant…
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mostly they need to move to Zigbee/Matter or similar.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 months ago
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.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
the fact that your home network setup for this relies on an internet connection is baffling
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
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.
melfie@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun.
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Is she fit?
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
Well it ultimately just keeps score snd achievements… but why the fuck do the achievements need to be cloud based? None of the other games I have are like that.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 months ago
Dunno her, mensxp.com/…/171080-best-offline-games-without-in…
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
I bought just the hitman game because I am a completionist and I just want that one. I don’t care for many other games.