Those things should be zwave or matter or something sensible, not WiFi anyway.
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I dipped my toes into “smart” thermostats with a Wyze. Meh. I don’t really need to set the temp from my phone, or any of the other features, beyond having a simple schedule. I’m seriously considering reverting all the way back to an old-school bimetal strip, dial on the wall type, in private protest of all this crap.
(Don’t get a Wyze. I think they’ve been discontinued anyway. The damn thing loses connection to the wifi three or four times per year, then I need to go through the ENTIRE setup process again, from the very beginning. The wifi antenna is in the closet not three feet away. POS.)
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
Why? It’s plugged into mains, you don’t need to save 5 watts.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s mostly network segregation and decluttering. Those things shouldn’t be on a adata network where you then have to filter them all off from the rest. A dedicated network that’s designed for this kind of thing makess much more sense. Also Watts add up. One of them maybe just 5 (which seems a bit high), but when you’ve got sensors, lights, switches, etc., it can end up being significant.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
If you’re talking about a commercial building or something, sure. I get the concept I suppose it just seems like it’s probably optimizing 2025 hardware against 2005 constraints when we’re talking about a single household.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s more about having fewer devices on Wi-Fi network IMO.
Until Wi-Fi 5, only one device could talk on Wi-Fi at a time, and even with 5+ the number of devices is limited by a ton of factors, so the more devices you have chattering the slower everything gets as devices wait their turn to speak, have collisions, time out, try to speak again, etc.
You can mitigate this through several different methods, but removing randomly transmitting devices will always be a benefit.
Zwave, zigby, all of those all operate in a different band so it’s better for your internet connection to wireless devices if you can offload stuff into those ranges.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
Fair enough, just seems like sticking with the more standard tech has its own advantages but if you’ve got a lot of devices in the net I could see the value
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Smart home = control over you. Just don’t do it.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is a blanket statement that doesn’t really hold up.
Commercial off the shelf cloud service based smart home = control over you.
Fully self hosted smart home = control over your house.