Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We need bluetooth devices back, there’s no reason for 99.999999% of devices to have your network password.

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. Local connection. Why the fuck does it need access to some server somewhere? I am sorry… but if they have updates for their shit available they need different ways of making it available.

    Also why the fuck does the company need audio recordings from your home? That is literally spy shit. And why does it need the layout? Even if they were doing it purely to improve their products and make them be able to work around confusing layouts and obstacles then that shit needs your full knowledge and consent… and you can withdraw consent at any time for any reason.

    I am too tired to rant further.

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    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      100% agree.

      Unless they artifically bloat their patch/update file sizes, I’d imagine sending it through your phone to the device over bluetooth would work fine.

      I’d even, personally, prefer they use a wifi link directly between my phone and the device while it updates before I give it free access to my lan.

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      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That sounds more reasonable. I mean driver updates for many items I used weren’t mandatory or searched for by my computer. Not even my windows machine. I had to go on their website to download them.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seriously, MQTT on your home server or router or whatever and let things talk to eachother THERE. Keep the conversation INSIDE the LAN. This cloud shit is all about building expensive, unnesscarry dependencies.

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  • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For a robot vacuum, wi-fi works best because you should be able to leave the phone in one room while the bot goes clean all the other ones. Bluetooth needs line of sight.

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    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Never used a robot vacuum, but the idea is that you set it up once and never think about it, right?

      So you’d set it up once with bluetooth, then disconnect and let it do its job.

      Software updates could cause issues, though if they release a finished product it wouldn’t need any or much of those if it works for you already. And updates can be managed over bluetooth.

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      • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On the smartphone App, I see a map of all the rooms, and while I sit on the couch, Wi-Fi allows me to watch the robot vacuum go through all the rooms. I suppose if it got stuck, I’d know where to find it. Not critically important, but kind of fun.

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